Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 102782

Child Maintenance Service: ICT

Tabled: 5 January 2026
Answered: 13 January 2026
Named Day

Question

Tom Tugendhat

ConservativeTonbridge

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many times the Child Maintenance Service IT system has experienced a (a) full outage and (b) partial service disruption in the last 12 months.

Answer

Andrew Western
The Child Maintenance Service IT system has had no full outages in the past 12 months. The service is supported by multiple digital products rather than a single system, so the data for part (b) is not held centrally and retrieving it would be disproporti...

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