Question follow-through · 548
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions his Department has had with HMRC on the potential use of coding-out powers to support the collection of debts owed to the Child Maintenance Service.
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 13 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 29 May 2026 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what discussions his Department has had with HMRC on the potential use of coding-out powers to support the collection of debts owed to the Child Maintenance Service.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
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29 May 2026
Answer published
The Department keeps under review a range of options to improve the collection of child maintenance and arrears, including the potential use of existing government debt collection mechanisms. The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) already has a range of stro...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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