Children: Maintenance
Commons · Question 24547 · Tabled 28 Aug 2026 · Department for Work and Pensions · Official record
Answered 9 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Zubir Ahmed
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the value of child maintenance arrears that the Child Maintenance Service has been unable to recover in each of the last five years; and what steps he is taking to improve r
Answer
Answered by Lilian Greenwood, 9 Sep 2026
DWP publishes Child Maintenance Service official statistics every three months. Table 4 of the latest national tables shows the amount of unpaid maintenance due through Collect and Pay in each quarter from January 2015 to March 2026, while table 5 shows t...