Child Maintenance Service: Finance
(asked on 30th May 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was contributed to the running of the Child Maintenance Service from (a) Government funding and (b) the (i) 4% contribution from parents receiving and (ii) 20% contribution from parents paying child maintenance through a collect-and-pay deduction from earnings order in each of the last five years.
The summary table below shows the response to the PQ ask.
- In the first line, the amount funded by the government over the last 5 years, which equates to the amount of gross expenditure incurred in support of CMS Operations excluding Digital, Estates and other Central costs.
- Below that, the fee income collected from both Paying (20%) and Receiving (4%) Parents within Collect & Pay.
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£m | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Net cost - Government funded | 146.2 | 115.1 | 120.7 | 104.1 | 115.9 |
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Paying Parent (PP) & Receiving Parent (RP) Fee Income - £m | 41.6 | 40.9 | 46.0 | 49.3 | 57.6 |
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PP & RP Fee Income detail: | £m | £m | £m | £m | £m |
Paying Parent Fee 20% | 34.8 | 34.2 | 38.5 | 41.3 | 48.2 |
Receiving Parent Fee 4% | 6.8 | 6.7 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 9.4 |
Total Income | 41.6 | 40.9 | 46.0 | 49.3 | 57.6 |
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Data is sourced from DWP internal management accounts used for internal financial management and reporting only.