| Heading: |
Children: Maintenance |
| Question ID: |
1816516 |
| UIN: |
62791 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-25 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5193 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Callum Anderson
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| Asking Member handle: |
_CallumAnderson
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@_CallumAnderson
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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 removing the Direct Pay option on levels of compliance with child maintenance payments among non-resident parents. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-04 |
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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: |
Reforms will introduce a single service where all payments will be monitored enabling the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to identify missed, late, or partial payments in real time. This will enable swift enforcement action to restore compliance and incre... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |