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What steps she is taking to help prevent knife crime during summer 2021.

Tabled: 6 July 2021Answered: 12 July 2021

Asked by

Helen Hayes

LabourDulwich and West Norwood

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for the Home Department

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Andrew Western)

The CMS modernisation programme delivers increasingly effective and efficient services. The programme has transformed customer interaction with the CMS, providing customers the choice to make contact digitally. Those efficiencies make it easier for customers to report changes and non-payment, so CMS caseworkers can focus on the collection of unpaid child maintenance.