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Child Maintenance Service statistics

Official statistics on child maintenance arrangements administered by the Child Maintenance Service.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for the child maintenance system in Great Britain. It funds information and support for separating parents and runs the statutory child maintenance schemes, currently operated through the Child Support Agency (CSA) and the Child Maintenance Service (CMS).

Find future release dates in our statistics release calendar and contact information and more about DWP statistics on the Statistics at DWP page.

Latest release

Background information and methodology

Previous releases

From 28 February 2018 the name of this statistical series changed from ‘2012 statutory child maintenance scheme statistics’ to ‘Child Maintenance Service statistics’.

National statistics on the 1993 and 2003 statutory child maintenance schemes are published in the CSA quarterly summary of statistics.

Publication strategy

The publication below provides details on the strategy for the publication of information about the 2012 scheme.

Published 26 March 2014
Last updated 26 March 2024 + show all updates
  1. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, this has data to December 2023.

  2. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, this has data to September 2023.

  3. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, this has data to June 2023.

  4. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, this has data to March 2023.

  5. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, this has data to December 2022.

  6. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, this has data to September 2022.

  7. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, this has data to June 2022.

  8. Added a note about the suspension of the Child Support Agency (CSA) arrears data.

  9. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, with data to March 2022.

  10. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, with data to December 2021.

  11. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, with data to September 2021.

  12. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, with data to June 2021.

  13. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, with data to March 2021.

  14. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, with data to December 2020.

  15. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, with data to September 2020.

  16. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, with data to June 2020.

  17. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, with data to March 2020.

  18. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, with data to December 2019.

  19. Added 'Child Maintenance Service statistics: data to September 2019 (experimental)'.

  20. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, with data to June 2019.

  21. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, with data from August 2013 to March 2019.

  22. Added a link to the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, with data from August 2013 to December 2018.

  23. Added a note that the statistics ‘Child Maintenance Service: August 2013 to December 2018 (experimental)’ will now be released on 17 April 2019. Publication was delayed due to an issue with the compliance data.

  24. Added note about a delay in publishing the statistics ‘Child Maintenance Service: August 2013 to December 2018 (experimental)’.

  25. Added note about a delay in publishing the regional tables and dashboard for the Child Maintenance Service statistics August 2013 to December 2018.

  26. Added latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics, with data from August 2013 to June 2018.

  27. Added 'Child Maintenance Service: August 2013 to March 2018 (experimental)' statistics to the collection.

  28. Added 'Child Maintenance Service: Aug 2013 to Dec 2017 (experimental)' to the collection. Please note, the name of this statistical series has changed from '2012 statutory child maintenance scheme statistics' to 'Child Maintenance Service statistics'.

  29. Published 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme statistics to September 2017.

  30. Published 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme statistics to June 2017. Also published background information and methodology document.

  31. Added "2012 statutory child maintenance scheme: Aug 2013 to Mar 2017 (experimental)".

  32. Published 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme statistics to November 2016.

  33. Published 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme statistics to August 2016.

  34. Published 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme statistics to May 2016.

  35. Published 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme statistics to February 2016.

  36. Published 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme statistics to November 2015.

  37. Published 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme statistics to August 2015.

  38. Published 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme statistics to May 2015.

  39. Published statistics on the 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme: Aug 2013 to Feb 2015 (experimental).

  40. Published statistics on the 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme for August 2013 to November 2014.

  41. Published latest statistics with data covering August 2013 to August 2014.

  42. Published June 2014 statistics (covering August 2013 to May 2014).

  43. Published link to the 2012 child maintenance scheme publication timetable.

  44. First published.