Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Child Maintenance Service has spent on consolatory payments in each of the last three years.
Child Maintenance Group (CMG) have only recorded Compensation Payment details for CMS separately since 2017/18, so we are unable to identify CMS only costs prior to that financial year.
For 2017/18 and 2018/19 the CMS figures are as follows:
| 2017-18 | 2018-19 |
Consolatory Payments | 72,099 | 79,556 |