Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 32254

Children: Maintenance

Tabled: 21 February 2025
Answered: 3 March 2025

Question

Jerome Mayhew

ConservativeBroadland and Fakenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to reduce waiting times for resolutions to missed child maintenance payments.

Answer

Andrew Western
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) will do everything it can to address the nonpayment of child maintenance and reduce waiting times for missed payments. We use our enforcement powers fairly and quickly to get cases back into payment.These powers include...

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