| Heading: |
Children: Maintenance |
| Question ID: |
1808144 |
| UIN: |
56509 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5361 |
| Asking Member display name: |
James McMurdock
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
James McMurdock
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she has undertaken a recent review of the Child Maintenance Service's approach to paternity disputes. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-10 |
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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: |
Parentage disputes can be raised at any point in the life cycle of a child maintenance case.If parentage is disputed before the initial maintenance calculation is made, the CMS will need to decide whether an assumption of parentage can be made. The circum... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |