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Children: Maintenance

Asked by Tom TugendhatConservativeDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled Answered 6 January 2026UIN 101416

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the annual collection rate is for child maintenance under (a) Collect and Pay and (b) Direct Pay.

Answered by Andrew Western

The Department regularly publishes Child Maintenance Service official statistics, with the latest statistics available to September 2025. Table 4 and Table 5 of the accompanying National tables provide information on the amount of child maintenance that should have been paid through Direct Pay and Collect and Pay arrangements, as well as the amounts that remain unpaid under each method.

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