Children: Maintenance
Commons · Question 64943 · Tabled 3 Jul 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 10 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Anna Dixon
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 2 June 2025 to Question 56485 on Children: Maintenance, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of aligning the child maintenance responsibilities of those who rec
Answer
Answered by Andrew Western, 10 Jul 2025
The child maintenance calculation is designed to be fair and proportionate and broadly represent an amount that the paying parent would spend on the child as if they were still living with them. The calculation takes the paying parent’s gross income into ...