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Child Maintenance Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her planned timetable is for responding to the Gingerbread report entitled Fix the Child Maintenance Service, published on 25 November 2024.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 6 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 8 Jan 2025
Answer: 14 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her planned timetable is for responding to the Gingerbread report entitled Fix the Child Maintenance Service, published on 25 November 2024.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) continues to engage regularly with stakeholders as we consider CMS reform. We are currently considering the recommendations from the Gingerbread report ‘Fix the CMS’ alongside other potential changes we have been discus...

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