Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 102780

Children: Maintenance

Tabled: 5 January 2026
Answered: 13 January 2026
Named Day

Question

Tom Tugendhat

ConservativeTonbridge

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Maintenance Service cases involving cross border maintenance arrangements were (a) opened and (b) successfully enforced in each of the last five years.

Answer

Andrew Western
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) defines cross-border maintenance arrangements to mean applications where one or more parties live outside the United Kingdom (UK).In the past five years, CMS has received no applications involving cross-border maintenan...

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