Children: Maintenance
(asked on 17th March 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average annual amount of child maintenance paid through the Child Maintenance Service was in the most recent year for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 7th April 2026
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
The department publishes Child Maintenance Service official statistics every three months, with section 8 of the latest bulletin showing that £84.4 million of child maintenance due was paid through the Collect and Pay service during the quarter ending September 2025