Question follow-through · 109845
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many consolatory payments were made to (a) paying and (b) receiving parents by the Child Maintenance Service in each of the last three years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 30 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 3 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many consolatory payments were made to (a) paying and (b) receiving parents by the Child Maintenance Service in each of the last three years.
3 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2026
Answer published
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.The department hold records of how many consolatory payments were authorised for Child Maintenance Service customers. This information is provided in th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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