Question follow-through · 88397
Child Maintenance Service
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Child Maintenance Service do not send arrears letters to people who pay on time.
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
- 5 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 14 Nov 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the Child Maintenance Service do not send arrears letters to people who pay on time.
11 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2025
Answer published
Robust processes are in place to ensure correspondence issued by the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is accurate and reflects each customer’s payment status. CMS systems monitor compliance of expected payments and where payments are not made in full and o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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