Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many deductions of earnings orders were issued by the Child Maintenance Service to employers other than the Ministry of Defence for the purpose of collecting child maintenance in each of the last three years.

This information is not collated as part of normal business and is only available at disproportionate cost to the Department.

The Department publishes quarterly Child Maintenance Service (CMS) statistics, with the latest statistics available to the end of September 2021, here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-september-2021-experimental