Question follow-through · 122255
Child Maintenance Service: Enforcement
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Service in (a) identifying non-compliance and (b) taking enforcement action to tackle non-compliance.
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
- 19 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 23 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 30 Mar 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps he is taking to improve the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Service in (a) identifying non-compliance and (b) taking enforcement action to tackle non-compliance.
23 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Mar 2026
Answer published
I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 3 March 2026 to question number UIN: 114271
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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