Question follow-through · 95669
Child Maintenance Service: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Maintenance Service calculations were revised following (a) Mandatory Reconsideration and (b) appeal in each of the last five years; and what the total value of revised liabilities was in
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 1 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 8 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Maintenance Service calculations were revised following (a) Mandatory Reconsideration and (b) appeal in each of the last five years; and what the total value of revised liabilities was in
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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8 Dec 2025
Answer published
Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) is the process where a parent asks the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to review a decision before appealing to His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service. It can be requested at any stage of a case or after an unsuccessful ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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