Question follow-through · 906019
Child Maintenance Service: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve the Child Maintenance Service.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 21 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 27 Oct 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve the Child Maintenance Service.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Oct 2025
Answer published
The Government has announced ambitious plans to reform the CMS. Moving all cases to a single service, where payments are collected and transferred will provide an improved service, quickly identifying and tackling missed payments and lifting more children...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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