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Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the Child Maintenance Service to (a) increase protections for the victims of domestic abuse and (b) to prevent the withholding or arti

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 6 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 12 Feb 2025
Answer: 12 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

6 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the Child Maintenance Service to (a) increase protections for the victims of domestic abuse and (b) to prevent the withholding or arti
12 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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12 Feb 2025
Answer published
A consultation on proposed reforms to the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) was published by the previous Government on 8 May 2024. This included:removing Direct Pay and managing all CMS cases in one service to allow the CMS to tackle non-compliance faster,...

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