Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 19 October 2016 to Question 48696, what the timescale is for (a) implementing the published evaluation strategy for the child maintenance reforms and (b) considering the effect of the programme.

As stated in the published evaluation strategy, consideration and analysis of the child maintenance reforms is currently underway and will continue up to December 2018. The effect of the programme will be assessed as part of this and will be key to understanding the effectiveness of the reforms as a whole.