| Heading: |
Children: Maintenance |
| Question ID: |
1819324 |
| UIN: |
64935 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5296 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Freddie van Mierlo
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Freddie van Mierlo
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to increase the powers of (a) enforcement and (b) collection of the Child Maintenance Service. |
| Is named day: |
true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-08 |
| 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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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is committed to ensuring separated parents support their children financially, taking robust enforcement action against those who do not. If someone chooses not to pay their maintenance themselves, the CMS has administr... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |