PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Child Maintenance Service: Complaints (3 September 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints about the Child Maintenance Service were investigated by the Independent Case Examiner (a) overall, (b) by the receiving parent and (c) by the paying parent in each of the last five years.

Asked by:
Shockat Adam (Independent)

The Independent Case Examiner’s office investigated 2,142 Child Maintenance Service (CMS) cases over the last 5 complete reporting years, broken down as follows:

Reporting Year	CMS Investigations
2019/20	188
2020/21	267
2021/22	396
2022/23	507
2023/24	784

The Independent Case Examiner’s office does not hold the information to provide a response to parts (b) and (c) of the question.

Answered by:
Andrew Western (Labour)
11 September 2024