Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, on how many occasions the Child Maintenance Service has successfully applied to the courts to disqualify a parent from holding or obtaining a driving licence as part of enforcement action for the collection of child maintenance in each year since 2015.

The full information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

The Department publishes quarterly Child Maintenance Service (CMS) statistics, with the latest statistics available to the end of September 2022 here.

The statistics for where the CMS applied to courts to sanction Paying Parents from July 2019 to September 2022 can be found in ‘Table 7.2: Enforcement Actions - Detail on Sanctions’ of the National tables.