Question follow-through · 52724
Child Maintenance Service: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Service in reaching targets set under its service level standards in each year since 2020.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 15 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 May 2025
- Answer
- 22 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Service in reaching targets set under its service level standards in each year since 2020.
19 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 May 2025
Answer published
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) has four official Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), each with a standard measure for 1) assessment accuracy, 2) application clearances, 3) change of circumstances clearances and 4) Collect and Pay compliance. Informati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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