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Children: Maintenance

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate his Department has made of the backlog of cases within the Child Maintenance Service; and what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken to (a) process new applications and (b) resolve d

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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 estimate his Department has made of the backlog of cases within the Child Maintenance Service; and what steps he is taking to reduce the time taken to (a) process new applications and (b) resolve d
12 Nov 2025
Target answer date
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17 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) have no application or Mandatory Reconsideration (dispute) backlogs. CMS is working on modernising service delivery with an aim of making services more cost efficient, effective, and timely. Both the applications and th...

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