Question follow-through · 19575
Children: Maintenance
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what mental health support and signposting is available to parents identified by the Child Maintenance Service as experiencing financial distress.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 2 Sept 2026 · 48 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what mental health support and signposting is available to parents identified by the Child Maintenance Service as experiencing financial distress.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is committed to ensuring that it delivers a safe service that is sensitive to the needs of all the parents that use it. It recognises that some parents may face difficult circumstances, particularly at a time of separat...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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