Question follow-through · 51510

Child Maintenance Service: Telephone Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what was the Child Maintenance Service helpline's performance in responding to phone calls against its service level standards.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
12 May 2025
Target answer date
14 May 2025
Answer
19 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what was the Child Maintenance Service helpline's performance in responding to phone calls against its service level standards.

  2. 14 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 May 2025

    Answer published

    The Child Maintenance Service are committed to delivering the best possible service to all customers. We continuously monitor telephony performance and through this fully recognise that call waiting times are at times longer than we would like. To address...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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