Question follow-through · 7626
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his department has made of how closely the online guidance about equal shared and day-to-day care aligns with the experiences of parents using the CMS system.
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
- 8 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 17 Jun 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his department has made of how closely the online guidance about equal shared and day-to-day care aligns with the experiences of parents using the CMS system.
10 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jun 2026
Answer published
The Department’s online guidance is intended to provide accessible information for parents that reflects how the requirements of the Child Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012 statutory framework is applied in practice, helping them to understand how ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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