Question follow-through · 114960
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many paying parents were newly recorded as being in arrears by the Child Maintenance Service in each of the last 24 months.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 23 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 13 Mar 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many paying parents were newly recorded as being in arrears by the Child Maintenance Service in each of the last 24 months.
25 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Mar 2026
Answer published
The information requested is not readily available and providing it would incur disproportionate cost. The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) will do everything within its powers to make sure parents comply. Where parents fail to take responsibility for payi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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