Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Pat McFadden and Greg Smith

Monday 26th January 2026 Commons Chamber

[Pat McFadden]

Let me congratulate my hon. Friend on the fantastic work that he has done in campaigning for the investments in and around his constituency. Major infrastructure investments such as Sizewell should be an opportunity for local employment and training and for increasing the skills of local people, and we want our youth guarantee and the changes we are making in the apprenticeship system to support those aims.

[Greg Smith (Mid Buckinghamshire) (Con)]

T5. On Friday, I met a constituent who has been told that she is losing all her child maintenance payments because her ex-husband simply told the Child Maintenance Service that he had moved abroad, which my constituent knows is entirely false. What steps will the Government take to verify claims from people trying to get out of their child maintenance payments?