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Child Maintenance Service: Appeals

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Question for Ministry of Justice

UIN 32766, tabled on 21 February 2025

Question

Jayne Kirkham
Labour
Truro and Falmouth
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what is the average waiting time for Child Maintenance Service appeal decisions.

Answer

Sarah Sackman
Labour
Finchley and Golders Green
Commons

Answered on

28 February 2025

The mean case age at clearance for Child Maintenance Service appeals for the latest periods for which data are available was 58* weeks for the quarter April to June 2024; and 57 weeks for the quarter July to September 2024.

Waiting times are calculated from receipt of the appeal to the final disposal decision. The final outcome of any appeal is not necessarily achieved at its first hearing.

*Please note that from April 2023 the SSCS Tribunal started to list cases using a new Scheduling and Listing solution. This, alongside HMCTS migrating to a new Strategic Data Platform, has resulted in some cases heard and decided using this new listing solution that may not be included in the data above.

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