Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many eligible parents have not received payment through the Child Maintenance Service in any month since March 2020.

The number of Paying Parents who have paid Child Maintenance are published quarterly. The latest published figures for Child Maintenance Service (CMS) are up the end of March 2020 and can be found on Stat-Xplore here:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/

Guidance on how to extract information from Stat-Xplore can be found at:

https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html

Information on the number of CMS ‘Collect & Pay’ arrangements for which no payments were made in the quarter can be found by selecting the “Service Type and Paying Status” variable in the “Child Maintenance Service” dataset. Please note that arrangements listed as “Collect & Pay, Not Paying” include some arrangements for which no maintenance was due.

Alternatively, Table 8: Paying Parents Compliance, in the National tables of the CMS official statistics, gives the number of Paying Parents who were due to pay some Child Maintenance each quarter and the number of those who paid some maintenance. The latest statistics to the end of March 2020 are published here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-march-2020-experimental

Statistics containing data to the end of June 2020 will not be available until the next publication, due on 30 September 2020.