Question follow-through · 118836
Child Maintenance Service: Complaints
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help improve complaint response times from the Child Maintenance 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
- 9 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to help improve complaint response times from the Child Maintenance Service.
11 Mar 2026
Target answer date
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17 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) complaint data information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.The CMS complies with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) complaints service standard, to aim to r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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