Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 15916

Child Maintenance Service: Standards

Tabled: 25 November 2024
Answered: 3 December 2024

Question

Danny Kruger

Reform UKEast Wiltshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what her planned timetable is for responding to her Department's consultation entitled Child Maintenance: Improving the collection and transfer of payments, published on 8 May 2024.

Answer

Andrew Western
A consultation on proposed reforms to the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) was published by the previous Government on 8 May 2024. These proposed reforms included removing Direct Pay and managing all CMS cases in one service to allow the CMS to tackle non-...

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