Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 95668

Child Maintenance Service: Appeals

Tabled: 1 December 2025

Answered: 8 December 2025

Named Day

Question

Tom Tugendhat

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) mandatory reconsiderations and (b) appeals have been requested in each of the last five years; and what is the average time it takes the Child Maintenance Service to review these requests.

Answer

Andrew Western

Mandatory Reconsideration (MR) is the process where a parent asks the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to review a decision before appealing to His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service. It can be requested at any stage of a case or after an unsuccessful ...

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