| Heading: |
Children: Maintenance |
| Question ID: |
1811780 |
| UIN: |
59248 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-11 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5169 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Charlie Dewhirst
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| Asking Member handle: |
charliedewhirst
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@charliedewhirst
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the use of mediation and conflict resolution in CMS cases where parents are disputing care arrangements or financial responsibility. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-18 |
| 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 operates on the principle that both parents have financial responsibility for their child, including their food and clothing, as well as contributing towards the associated costs of running the home that the child lives in. R... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |