Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 29580

Children: Maintenance

Tabled: 6 February 2025

Answered: 12 February 2025

Named Day

Question

Pippa Heylings

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reforming the Child Maintenance Service to (a) increase protections for the victims of domestic abuse and (b) to prevent the withholding or arti

Answer

Andrew Western

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

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