| Heading: |
Child Maintenance Service: Fees and Charges |
| Question ID: |
1815517 |
| UIN: |
62004 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-23 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5313 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Zöe Franklin
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| Asking Member handle: |
zoefranklinld
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@zoefranklinld
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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 potential impact of Child Maintenance Service late payment fees being deducted from maintenance payments on receiving parents and children. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-01 |
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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: |
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) does not charge late payment fees. It does charge fees to paying parents and receiving parents who are on the Collect and Pay service: twenty per cent on top of the maintenance liability for the paying parent and four p... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |