Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 12 February 2026.
Matt Vickers
Shadow Minister (Crime, Policing and Fire)
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many consolatory payments were made to (a) paying and (b) receiving parents by the Child Maintenance Service in each of the last three years.
Andrew Western
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.
The department hold records of how many consolatory payments were authorised for Child Maintenance Service customers. This information is provided in the table. We are unable to supply a breakdown of payments made to paying and receiving parents without additional work at disproportionate cost.
Year | No. of consolatory payments authorised |
2022/2023 | 2107 |
2023/2024 | 2634 |
2024/2025 | 2189 |
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