Question follow-through · 89118
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what mechanisms are in place to allow the collection of child maintenance arrears after a qualifying child ceases to be a qualifying child; and what guidance his Department has issued to receiving paren
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 10 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 17 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what mechanisms are in place to allow the collection of child maintenance arrears after a qualifying child ceases to be a qualifying child; and what guidance his Department has issued to receiving paren
12 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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17 Nov 2025
Answer published
If Paying Parents fail to meet their financial obligation to their children, the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) has a range of strong enforcement powers including deduction from earnings orders and bank accounts, removing a parents passport or driving li...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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