Question follow-through · 32254
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to reduce waiting times for resolutions to missed child maintenance payments.
About this written question
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
- 21 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 3 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to reduce waiting times for resolutions to missed child maintenance payments.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) will do everything it can to address the nonpayment of child maintenance and reduce waiting times for missed payments. We use our enforcement powers fairly and quickly to get cases back into payment.These powers include...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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