Question follow-through · 75848
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) criminal and (b) civil measures to increase compliance with child maintenance payments.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 8 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 17 Sept 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of (a) criminal and (b) civil measures to increase compliance with child maintenance payments.
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Sept 2025
Answer published
69% of Paying Parents due to pay via the Collect & Pay service actually paid some maintenance during the calendar quarter ending March 2025. This compares with 65% during the quarter ending March 2023. In the year to March 2025, the CMS arranged aroun...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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