Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they intend the reform of the child maintenance service to be part of the Child Poverty Taskforce’s agenda in developing its child poverty strategy.

The Child Poverty Taskforce is working to publish the Child Poverty Strategy in Spring 2025.

The publication on 23 October ‘Tackling Child Poverty: Developing our Strategy’ sets out how we will develop the Strategy, harnessing all available levers to deliver a reduction in child poverty this Parliament.

Beyond the Child Poverty Taskforce, the Department for Work and Pensions has recently concluded a public consultation on Child Maintenance Service (CMS) reform, with a government response to be published in due course and is reviewing the child maintenance calculation.