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Child Maintenance Service: Staff

Asked by Jack RankinConservativeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 30 January 2025UIN 25943

The question

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.

Answered by Andrew Western

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

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