Question follow-through · 26617
Child Maintenance Service: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what service standard the Child Maintenance Service has to respond to (a) complex casework and (b) complaints submitted between 30 August 2024 to 24 January 2025.
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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
- 27 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what service standard the Child Maintenance Service has to respond to (a) complex casework and (b) complaints submitted between 30 August 2024 to 24 January 2025.
29 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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4 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) have service standards for all change of circumstances, these are not categorised as complex as there is no specific criteria to meet, each case is considered on its own merit and circumstances of the case. Caseworkers ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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