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 "title": "Child maintenance due and paid, Great Britain",
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 "summary": "Child maintenance due through the Child Maintenance Service's Direct Pay and Collect and Pay services each quarter in Great Britain, and the maintenance paid through Collect and Pay, with the arrangements at the quarter's end, from DWP's statistics.",
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  "Child maintenance only, without the service's fees, rounded to the nearest £100,000. Direct Pay maintenance is arranged by the service and paid between parents, so the service records it as due but not as paid; Collect and Pay maintenance is collected by the service (DWP's note 1).",
  "The arrangements are those in place at the end of each quarter, rounded to the nearest 100 (Table 3)."
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   "Paid through Collect and Pay": {
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  "govuk_page_title": "Child Maintenance Service statistics: data to June 2026",
  "attachment_title": "National tables: Child Maintenance Service statistics, data to June 2026"
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  "note": "£117.7 million due through Collect and Pay, of which £89.0 million paid; 819,300 arrangements at the quarter's end"
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