Question follow-through · 29342

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Child Maintenance Service takes action against people who are in arrears.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
5 Feb 2025
Target answer date
10 Feb 2025
Answer
10 Feb 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Child Maintenance Service takes action against people who are in arrears.

  2. 10 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) will do everything within its powers to make sure parents comply and has made significant improvements to the process to speed up action when payments first break down and to target enforcement action more effectively.W...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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