Question follow-through · 70530

Child Maintenance Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to improve Child Maintenance Service response times.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
29 Aug 2025
Target answer date
2 Sept 2025
Answer
10 Sept 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.

Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Aug 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to improve Child Maintenance Service response times.

  2. 2 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    Through the Service Modernisation and Digital Transformation Programmes, the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) has made significant improvements to our service to improve response times. The introduction of online services including ‘Child Maintenance Calcu...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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