Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 64471

Child Maintenance Service: Standards

Tabled: 2 July 2025

Answered: 10 July 2025

Question

Jo Platt

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Government’s response to the consultation entitled Child Maintenance: Improving the Collection and Transfer of Payments, published on 23 June 2025, what steps she is taking to prev

Answer

Andrew Western

By replacing Direct Pay, we will tackle non-compliance, reduce opportunities for domestic abuse and lift children out of poverty. As part of this, we will require all those parents who are non-compliant to pay a 20% collection fee. We do not envisage ther...

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