Question follow-through · 80450

Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the total amount of child maintenance arrears owed to date in Wiltshire; and how this compares to the national average.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
10 Oct 2025
Target answer date
14 Oct 2025
Answer
21 Oct 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the total amount of child maintenance arrears owed to date in Wiltshire; and how this compares to the national average.

  2. 14 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    The information requested on the total amount of child maintenance arrears owed in Wiltshire is not readily available and would incur disproportionate cost to obtain. The Department publishes Child Maintenance Service (CMS) statistics regularly and the re...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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