Question follow-through · 103652
Child Maintenance Service: Fees and Charges
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will consider removing the charges for the Child Maintenance Service's collect pay service.
About this written question
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
- 6 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will consider removing the charges for the Child Maintenance Service's collect pay service.
8 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Jan 2026
Answer published
Cases on the Collect and Pay service are typically those where the paying parent has demonstrated an unwillingness to pay, or has not been compliant in a Direct Pay arrangement. For this service, a fee of 20% is added to what the paying parent needs to pa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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