Children: Maintenance

(asked on 9th October 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the total amount of child maintenance arrears owed in inactive cases; and, in these cases, what funds have been recovered by the service in the last 5 years.


Answered by
Lilian Greenwood Portrait
Lilian Greenwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 21st October 2026

The information requested on all inactive cases is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

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