Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 80727

Children: Maintenance

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 21 October 2025

Question

Claire Hazelgrove

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment his Department has made of whether company directors are able to disguise personal income as business revenue to reduce child support obligations under the Child Maintenance Service 2012

Answer

Andrew Western

Where a paying parent is the Director of their limited liability company, they are legally an employee of that company for child maintenance purposes. They are also legally required to provide details of unearned income such as dividends in their Self-Ass...

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