Question follow-through · 25942
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many child maintenance administrative liability orders were rejected by courts in each year between 2021 and 2024; and for what reasons courts rejected these applications.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 22 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 30 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many child maintenance administrative liability orders were rejected by courts in each year between 2021 and 2024; and for what reasons courts rejected these applications.
24 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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30 Jan 2025
Answer published
Where parents fail to take responsibility for paying for their children, the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) will not hesitate to use the range of enforcement powers available, and a liability order facilitates this.A liability order allows the CMS to for...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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