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Last updated: April 2026
Topics: Child Maintenance Service, CMS arrears, liability orders, enforcement, UK law

This site provides structured, evidence-based information on the Child Maintenance Service (CMS), including enforcement, arrears, legal process, and public policy.

Content is organised by topic to help readers, researchers, and policymakers navigate key issues.

🔴 CORE INVESTIGATION

The £4 Billion Lie
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-4-billion-lie.html
The £4 Billion Arrears Question
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-4-billion-arrears-question-what-do.html

🟠 POLICY, MEDIA & INFLUENCE

Gingerbread’s Misrepresentation of Child Maintenance
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2025/10/gingerbreads-misrepresentation-of-child.html
Gingerbread, Parliament and the Problem of Selective Evidence
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/gingerbread-parliament-and-problem-of.html
Who Is Shaping Child Maintenance Policy?
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/who-is-shaping-child-maintenance-policy.html
CMS Reform Is Built on Half Evidence
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/cms-reform-is-built-on-half-evidence.html

🔵 SELECTIVE SCRUTINY & ACCESS

Selective Scrutiny: Who Gets Heard on the CMS?
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/selective-scrutiny-who-gets-heard-on.html
Selective Scrutiny and Statistical Evidence
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/selective-scrutiny-and-statistical.html
From Survey to National Evidence
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/from-survey-to-national-evidence-how.html
Selective Engagement: Who Gets Access to Government?
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/selective-engagement-who-gets-access-to.html
When the Minister Won’t Meet
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/when-minister-wont-meet-what-sherlock.html
Selective Access: Why Does Gingerbread Get the Minister?
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/selective-access-why-does-gingerbread.html

⚖️ CMS ENFORCEMENT & LEGAL PROCESS

How to Challenge Child Maintenance Arrears
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/how-to-challenge-child-maintenance.html
Should CMS Enforcement Be Paused When Arrears Are Disputed?
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/should-cms-enforcement-be-paused-when.html
What Happens at a CMS Liability Order Hearing?
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/what-happens-at-cms-liability-order.html
Are CMS Liability Order Hearings Just a Rubber Stamp?
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/are-cms-liability-order-hearings-just.html
Has the Burden of Proof Been Reversed?
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/has-burden-of-proof-been-reversed-in.html

🟢 COLLECT & PAY / ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM

Can the CMS Force You Onto Collect and Pay?
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/can-child-maintenance-service-force-you.html
Was Collect and Pay a Target-Driven System?
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/was-collect-and-pay-target-driven-system.html
Child Maintenance Service Collect and Pay
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/child-maintenance-service-collect-and.html

🟣 ACCOUNTABILITY, COST & PERFORMANCE

Is the Child Maintenance Service Value for Money?
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/is-child-maintenance-service-value-for.html
Why the Child Maintenance Service Fails
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/why-child-maintenance-service-fails.html
The Double Cost of CMS (£117 Million…)
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-double-cost-of-cms-117-million-in.html

🟡 RIGHTS, JUSTICE & LEGAL REMEDIES

Access to Justice in the UK
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/access-to-justice-in-uk-why-are-child.html
Can You Sue the Child Maintenance Service?
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/can-you-sue-child-maintenance-service.html
Who Speaks for Paying Parents?
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/who-speaks-for-paying-parents-missing.html

🟤 DATA, STATISTICS & NARRATIVE

Domestic Abuse Statistics Tell a Bigger Story
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/2026/04/domestic-abuse-statistics-tell-bigger.html

🔵 MAIN HUB PAGE

Child Maintenance Service UK – The Truth Behind the System
https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/p/child-maintenance-service-uk-truth.html

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Contact

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About the £4 Billion Lie

https://the-4billion-pound-lie.blogspot.com/p/about-4-billion-lie.html

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The £4 Billion Lie

How the State and Gingerbread Framed Innocent Parents As Deadbeat Dads UK Parliament – Palace of Westminster, home of the Work and Pensions Select Committee and the Public Accounts Committee that examined Child Support Agency arrears. For more than thirty years, the British Government and its favoured charity partner, Gingerbread , have cast one group of citizens as villains: the Non Resident Parent . Labelled “deadbeat dads,” they’ve been accused of failing their children. Behind that slogan lies a manufactured scandal — a fictitious debt worth billions, created by the Child Support Agency (CSA) on the 1993 -2003 child support schemes and continues to be collected by the Child Maintenance Service (CMS). The Henshaw Report (2006): The Warning They Ignored In 2006, the Government commissioned Sir David Henshaw to review the failing Child Support Agency. His report, Recovering Child Support – Routes to Responsibility , was blunt: “The Agency has not delivered agai...

Findings Summary: Between 2016 and 2024, the charity Gingerbread (No. 230750) repeatedly asserted in media articles, parliamentary briefings, and reports that £3.8 – £4 billion in unpaid child-maintenance arrears was owed to single parents. This figure appeared in The Guardian , BBC News , The Mirror , The Sun , Raeside Chisholm Solicitors , iNews , and Early Day Motion 575 (19 October 2016) — all explicitly citing Gingerbread as the source. However, official findings from the National Audit Office (NAO), Work and Pensions Committee, and Public Accounts Committee (2009 – 2024) confirmed that the overwhelming majority of this debt was fictitious, inflated, or owed to the Secretary of State, not to parents with care. The House of Commons Library Briefing Paper CBP-7776 (2021) recorded that, of the £3.7 billion in legacy CSA arrears, only £0.1 – £0.6 billion was realistically recoverable. On 7 July 2020, the Charity Commission for England and Wales upheld a public comp...

Is the Child Maintenance Service Value for Money?

Public services are not judged on cost alone. They are judged on whether they deliver value. Under the framework used by the National Audit Office, public spending must be assessed against three key principles: Economy – is money being spent carefully? Efficiency – are resources being used well? Effectiveness – is the system achieving its intended outcomes? These are the standards applied across Government. The question is whether the Child Maintenance Service meets them. The Cost of the System The Child Maintenance Service costs approximately: £116 million per year to operate This is public money, funded by taxpayers, and justified on the basis that it supports children by ensuring financial maintenance is paid. The Cost of the Outcomes Recent analysis based on Freedom of Information data has identified: 35 suicides among paying parents in a six-month period Using Parliament’s estimate of £1.67 million per suicide , this equates to: ~£117 million per year That is broadly equi...

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The £4 Billion Lie: How the State and Gingerbread Framed Innocent Parents As Deadbeat Dads