Question follow-through · 102780
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Maintenance Service cases involving cross border maintenance arrangements were (a) opened and (b) successfully enforced in each of the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 5 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
5 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Maintenance Service cases involving cross border maintenance arrangements were (a) opened and (b) successfully enforced in each of the last five years.
13 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) defines cross-border maintenance arrangements to mean applications where one or more parties live outside the United Kingdom (UK).In the past five years, CMS has received no applications involving cross-border maintenan...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Children: Maintenance
7 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of parents on default rate calculations in each of the last three years.
Children: Maintenance
7 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Child Maintenance Service cases have been transferred from direct pay to collect and pay due to non-compliance in each of the last three years.
Children: Maintenance
28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the formulas used by the Child Maintenance Service to determine child maintenance payments.