| Heading: |
Children: Maintenance |
| Question ID: |
1807156 |
| UIN: |
55567 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5090 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Tom Morrison
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| Asking Member handle: |
thomasmorrison
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@thomasmorrison
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many parents who made a request to move from a deduction from earnings order to direct debit subsequently defaulted on their child maintenance payments in each of the last 5 years. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
| 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: |
The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) will do everything it can to address the nonpayment of child maintenance. Where payments have defaulted, we use our enforcement powers fairly and quickly to get cases back into payment. The Department publishes quarterl... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |