Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 103806
Children: Maintenance
Tabled: 7 January 2026
Answered: 19 January 2026
Named DayQuestion
Tom Tugendhat
Conservative — Tonbridge
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of parents on default rate calculations in each of the last three years.
Answer
Andrew WesternThe Department estimates that there were approximately 2,900 paying parents with a Default Maintenance Decision (DMD) as of June 2025. These were identified by searching for cases that had liability amounts and numbers of children corresponding to the cur...
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