| Heading: |
Children: Maintenance |
| Question ID: |
1794480 |
| UIN: |
45707 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-17 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4475 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Suella Braverman
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| Asking Member handle: |
suellabraverman
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@suellabraverman
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the timescale for the cancellation of debts owed to the Child Maintenance Service. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-29 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4979 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Western
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| Answering Member handle: |
andrewhwestern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@andrewhwestern
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| Answer text: |
In 2012, powers were introduced which allowed the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to write off historic Child Support Agency (CSA) and CMS debt in specific scenarios where it would be unfair or inappropriate to enforce liability. Examples of these scenari... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |