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Children: Maintenance

Asked by Tom TugendhatConservativeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 16 December 2025UIN 98424

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what is the current total value is of child maintenance arrears.

Answered by Andrew Western

The Child Maintenance Service is committed to ensuring that child maintenance is paid in full and on time, and where arrears occur we take robust action to recover money owed to children and families.

The Department publishes quarterly statistics for the Child Maintenance Service and the latest statistics are currently available to June 2025. Table 5 of the latest National tables shows the total amount of child maintenance that Paying Parents should have paid since the Child Maintenance Service began, and how much of that has not been paid as at the end of June 2025.

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