Question follow-through · 102782
Child Maintenance Service: ICT
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times the Child Maintenance Service IT system has experienced a (a) full outage and (b) partial service disruption in the last 12 months.
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A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- 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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Recorded timeline
5 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times the Child Maintenance Service IT system has experienced a (a) full outage and (b) partial service disruption in the last 12 months.
13 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Child Maintenance Service IT system has had no full outages in the past 12 months. The service is supported by multiple digital products rather than a single system, so the data for part (b) is not held centrally and retrieving it would be disproporti...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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