Question follow-through · 21456
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help tackle unpaid child maintenance.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 19 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jan 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to help tackle unpaid child maintenance.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is committed to ensuring separated parents support their children financially, taking robust enforcement action against those who do not.The CMS has a relatively low percentage of unpaid maintenance. Only 8% of the tota...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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