Child maintenance due and paid, Great Britain
Official statistics
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.
Due through Direct Pay
£306m
Apr–Jun 2026 · £117.7 million due through Collect and Pay, of which £89.0 million paid; 819,300 arrangements at the quarter's end
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:03 UTC- Due through Direct Pay
- Due through Collect and Pay
- Paid through Collect and Pay
Source: Department for Work and Pensions. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
46 periods, newest first
| Period | Due through Direct Pay | Due through Collect and Pay | Paid through Collect and Pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr–Jun 2026 | £306m | £117.7m | £89m |
| Jan–Mar 2026 | £292.3m | £112.8m | £86.5m |
| Oct–Dec 2025 | £288.4m | £110.2m | £84m |
| Jul–Sep 2025 | £296.8m | £111.5m | £84.4m |
| Apr–Jun 2025 | £291.1m | £106.1m | £78.2m |
| Jan–Mar 2025 | £279m | £100.6m | £72.5m |
| Oct–Dec 2024 | £276.9m | £95.3m | £67.8m |
| Jul–Sep 2024 | £284.4m | £94.1m | £65.4m |
| Apr–Jun 2024 | £278.8m | £86.1m | £61.2m |
| Jan–Mar 2024 | £266.7m | £82.2m | £58.7m |
| Oct–Dec 2023 | £259.7m | £79.7m | £56.6m |
| Jul–Sep 2023 | £263.2m | £79.1m | £57.5m |
| Apr–Jun 2023 | £252.4m | £75.8m | £52.1m |
| Jan–Mar 2023 | £237m | £72m | £49.1m |
| Oct–Dec 2022 | £231.7m | £69.7m | £49.1m |
| Jul–Sep 2022 | £231.2m | £71.4m | £49.4m |
| Apr–Jun 2022 | £219.7m | £69.6m | £48.8m |
| Jan–Mar 2022 | £207.1m | £66.8m | £45.6m |
| Oct–Dec 2021 | £210.2m | £64.4m | £46.6m |
| Jul–Sep 2021 | £217.1m | £63.1m | £47.4m |
| Apr–Jun 2021 | £212.3m | £60.9m | £46.9m |
| Jan–Mar 2021 | £203.1m | £58.3m | £45.4m |
| Oct–Dec 2020 | £201.8m | £57.4m | £42.2m |
| Jul–Sep 2020 | £201.8m | £56.9m | £41.1m |
| Apr–Jun 2020 | £196.7m | £55.6m | £41.7m |
| Jan–Mar 2020 | £197.9m | £64.5m | £45.2m |
| Oct–Dec 2019 | £194.8m | £64m | £44.1m |
| Jul–Sep 2019 | £195.8m | £63.4m | £43.1m |
| Apr–Jun 2019 | £188.9m | £60.3m | £41.8m |
| Jan–Mar 2019 | £179.8m | £58.5m | £40.6m |
| Oct–Dec 2018 | £178.7m (an estimate: DWP says data issues affected the quarter (its note 3)) | £58.7m (an estimate: DWP says data issues affected the quarter (its note 3)) | £38.6m (an estimate: DWP says data issues affected the quarter (its note 3)) |
| Jul–Sep 2018 | £172.9m | £58.1m | £35.9m |
| Apr–Jun 2018 | £164.6m | £54.8m | £32.7m |
| Jan–Mar 2018 | £152.1m | £49.1m | £27.9m |
| Oct–Dec 2017 | £146.4m | £45.2m | £23.1m |
| Jul–Sep 2017 | £140.3m | £40.7m | £20.6m |
| Apr–Jun 2017 | £129.2m | £36.2m | £18.4m |
| Jan–Mar 2017 | £113.1m | £31.7m | £17m |
| Oct–Dec 2016 | £100.9m | £28.8m | £14.5m |
| Jul–Sep 2016 | £88.9m | £26.4m | £13.1m |
| Apr–Jun 2016 | £77.8m | £23.1m | £11.6m |
| Jan–Mar 2016 | £64.5m | £20m | £9.9m |
| Oct–Dec 2015 | £54.5m | £17.1m | £8.8m |
| Jul–Sep 2015 | £46.8m | £14.4m | £7.4m |
| Apr–Jun 2015 | £39.4m | £12.2m | £6.5m |
| Jan–Mar 2015 | £32.4m | £11.1m | £5.8m |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-the-2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 9 November 2026, 14:50 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-june-2026SHA-256 ecae3191165324f7ebe6633f98f94c461f29b84130bc789e300e7a5148b89f84 · 14,223 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ab52c64734e2435f202f03e/national-tables-cms-statistics-data-to-june-2026.odsSHA-256 6035002c86cec88aa2d29c9956172455c2966135344df4797ace154c08ce6119 · 63,099 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 15:03 UTC Run at 9 November 2026, 15:03 UTC; 138 of 138 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Department for Work and Pensions; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-09T14:50:28Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 138 of 138 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's unpaid and arrangements and flags match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 138 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 138 of 138 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's unpaid and arrangements and flags match |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2026-06-30 ended 132 days before retrieval (limit 200), from National tables: Child Maintenance Service statistics, data to June 2026 |
| Pass | Collect and Pay's maintenance due less that paid is the unpaid | 46 of 46 cases of the quarters' Collect and Pay maintenance due, less that paid, is the unpaid maintenance DWP gives, within its rounding to £0.1 million within 0.1 (36 exactly) |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-the-2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- 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).