Question follow-through · 103806
Children: Maintenance
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.
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
- 7 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 19 Jan 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jan 2026
Question tabled
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.
13 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Department estimates that there were approximately 2,900 paying parents with a Default Maintenance Decision (DMD) as of June 2025. These were identified by searching for cases that had liability amounts and numbers of children corresponding to the cur...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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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.