Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to support low income parents in their navigation of the Child Maintenance Service to secure adequate contact arrangements.

Issues regarding contact are handled by the family courts. The Child Maintenance Service responsibility is limited to maintenance payments.

Where possible the Child Maintenance Service supports separated parents to work together in the interests of their children and set up their own family based child maintenance arrangements. Child Maintenance Options provides free and impartial information to help with these decisions.