Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 97239

Children: Maintenance

Tabled: 4 December 2025
Answered: 12 December 2025

Question

Matt Vickers

ConservativeStockton West

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to reduce waiting times for child maintenance enforcement actions.

Answer

Andrew Western
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) will do everything it can to address the non-payment of child maintenance and ensure appropriate enforcement action is taken in a timely manner.Enforcement action can include deductions from earnings orders, or from ban...

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