Written questions

Children: Maintenance

Commons · Question 96063 · Tabled 1 Dec 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record

Answered 11 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Zöe Franklin

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what measures are in place to prevent delays to child maintenance proceedings arising from the non-submission of required documents by a paying parent; and how the Department ensures that such delays do

Answer

Answered by Andrew Western, 11 Dec 2025

Under the Child Support Information Regulations 2008, paying parents have a duty to provide the Department with any evidence or information needed for the i) determination of an application ; ii) making of a decision; or iii) collection and enforcement of...