Child Maintenance Service: Staff
(asked on 22nd January 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many staff work for the Child Maintenance Service by each civil service pay bracket.
The number of staff who work for the Child Maintenance Service by each civil service pay bracket has been provided in the tables 1 and 2 below.
Table 1: The Child Maintenance Service, Great Britain (CMS GB) have a total of 3,831 staff in post.
Grade | Child Maintenance Service GB |
AA | 44 |
AO | 2,232 |
EO | 1,210 |
HEO | 220 |
SEO | 77 |
UG7 | 34 |
UG6 | 10 |
SCS1 | 3 |
SCS2 | 1 |
Total | 3,831 |
Data to December 2024
Table 2: The Department for Communities, Northern Ireland (DFC NI) administers casework for Paying Parents living in Northern Ireland under Northern Ireland legislation for the 2012 scheme and have their own funding process, pay structure and grading system. DFC NI also provide services to CMS GB under a Memorandum of Understanding. There are a total of 987 staff in post providing these services who are either civil servants employed by the DFC NI or agency staff employed by The Recruitment Co.
Grade | Department for Communities NI, GB services. |
VRAO | 343 |
VAO | 309 |
VWP AO | 4 |
AO Administrative Officer | 87 |
VREO2 | 5 |
VEO2 | 85 |
VWP EO2 | 5 |
EO2 Executive Officer 2 | 75 |
VEO1 | 10 |
VREO1 | 3 |
EO1 Executive Officer 1 | 33 |
V Staff Officer | 4 |
Staff Officer | 11 |
DP Deputy Principal | 7 |
G7 | 4 |
G6 | 1 |
G5 | 1 |
Total | 987 |
Data to December 2024