Question follow-through · 64934

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the collection of late payments by the Child Maintenance Service.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body: Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled: 3 Jul 2025
Target answer date: 8 Jul 2025
Answer: 8 Jul 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the collection of late payments by the Child Maintenance Service.
8 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government is dedicated to ensuring parents meet their responsibilities to provide their children with financial support and the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) will do everything within its powers to make sure parents comply. Where parents fail to pa...

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