Question follow-through · 86784

Child Maintenance Service: Electronic Government

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) digitising and (b) introducing an online portal for the Child Maintenance Service.

answeredDepartment for Work and Pensions

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Answering body
Department for Work and Pensions
Tabled
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
3 Nov 2025
Answer
11 Nov 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of (a) digitising and (b) introducing an online portal for the Child Maintenance Service.

  2. 3 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) offers a range of digital services designed to support separated families. These include 'Child Maintenance Calculator’, ‘Get Help Arranging Child Maintenance’ and ‘My Child Maintenance Case’(MCMC). Through these servic...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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