Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Deduction from Earnings Orders have been issued by the Child Maintenance Service to the Ministry of Defence’s Defence Business Services in each financial year from 2013-14 to 2022-23.

The 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 December 2022 here.

The quarterly number of Deduction Orders set up and in process can be found in Table 7.1: Enforcement Actions of the National Tables.

Quarterly statistics showing the method of payment for CMS Paying Parents are available on Stat-Xplore here.

Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found here.