Question follow-through · 51689
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that paying parents do not conceal (a) earnings and (b) investments to evade 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
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 15 May 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that paying parents do not conceal (a) earnings and (b) investments to evade child maintenance payments.
15 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 May 2025
Answer published
Information about the paying parent's gross income is taken directly from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for the most recent available full tax year. This allows calculations to be made quickly and accurately. Use of historic income ensures a stable calcul...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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