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<p>The only fines that can be imposed relating to child maintenance are as a result
of criminal prosecution for failure to provide information or providing false information
for the purposes of calculating the child maintenance liability. These fines are imposed
by a court, information about fines is not recorded by my Department for management
information purposes, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p>
</p><p>Within child maintenance enforcement, “sanctions” generally refers to powers
used as a last resort, when other enforcement actions have not resulted in successful
collection of arrears.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>DWP publish information on enforcement
actions.</p><p> </p><p>Information on both civil and criminal enforcement actions
undertaken by the Child Support Agency (CSA) is only available from April 2007. This
can be found in Table 22 of the latest CSA Quarterly Summary of Statistics, available
at the following link: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-march-2017"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-march-2017</a>
. This includes information on a variety of enforcement actions, including commitment
to prison and disqualification from driving (in the Committals section), along with
information on the number of prosecutions that have been undertaken.</p><p> </p><p>Information
on civil and criminal enforcement action undertaken by the Child Maintenance Service
is published on Table 16 of the Child Maintenance Service Experimental Statistics,
which contains data between September 2015 and March 2017. The publication can be
accessed online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme-aug-2013-to-mar-2017-experimental"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme-aug-2013-to-mar-2017-experimental</a>
. These statistics do not include detail on the different types of enforcement action,
so do not include the number of sanction actions taken.</p>
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