Question follow-through · 96063
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures are in place to prevent delays to child maintenance proceedings arising from the non-submission of required documents by a paying parent; and how the Department ensures that such delays do
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 1 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2025 · 10 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, what measures are in place to prevent delays to child maintenance proceedings arising from the non-submission of required documents by a paying parent; and how the Department ensures that such delays do
3 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2025
Answer published
Under the Child Support Information Regulations 2008, paying parents have a duty to provide the Department with any evidence or information needed for the i) determination of an application ; ii) making of a decision; or iii) collection and enforcement of...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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