A question on #Children #Maintenance tabled by Baroness Coffey on 22-05-2025 has been answered by Baroness Sherlock.

Heading: Children: Maintenance
Question ID: 1805935
UIN: HL7808
House: Lords
Date tabled: 2025-05-22
Asking Member ID: 4098
Asking Member display name: Baroness Coffey
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Asking Member Twitter reference: Baroness Coffey
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the official statistics Child Maintenance Service statistics: data to December 2024, published 25 March, how many of the 68,000 paying parents who paid no maintenance via the Collect and Pay service in the last
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Date answered: 2025-06-06
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Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 4147
Answering Member display name: Baroness Sherlock
Answering Member handle: MaeveSherlock
Answering Member Twitter reference: @MaeveSherlock
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Answer text: The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) has a wide range of enforcement powers and is committed to using these fairly and in the best interests of children and separated families to tackle non-paying Collect and Pay cases and challenge non-compliant behaviour...
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Answering body ID: 29
Answering body name: Department for Work and Pensions
Tweeted: true