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date	08/05/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the running costs of the Child Maintenance Service and Child Support Agency were last year; and how much those parents who are the subject of cases administered by both organisations paid in maintenance in the same period.
tabling member constituency	Saffron Walden
tabling member printed	Mrs Kemi Badenoch
uin	141870
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/05/2018 answer text <p>The cost of running the Child Maintenance Service and Child Support Agency for 2017/18 was £221.73m (excluding income) or £199.67m (net of income.) This is an Operational delivery cost only, and does not include any apportionment of DWP overheads.</p><p> </p><p>Please note:</p><p> </p><ol><li>This is an unpublished figure, CMG costs are reported as part of the DWP Annual Report and Accounts and individual Operational/business areas are not separately identifiable in the DWP accounts.</li><li>The 2017/18 cost figures have not yet been audited.</li></ol><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The amounts of maintenance paid by parents in relation to cases administered by the CSA are published in table 4 of <em>Child Support Agency quarterly summary of statistics: December 2017 </em>available on line at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-december-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-december-2017</a>. Similarly the amounts of maintenance paid by parents in relation to cases administered by the CMS are published in table 8 of <em>Child Maintenance Service: Aug 2013 to Dec 2017 (experimental)</em> available on line at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-dec-2017-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-dec-2017-experimental</a></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 16/05/2018 15:04:07 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch

900200

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of staff who work in his Department’s Financial Investigation Unit are tasked with seeking to identify the assets and income of people alleged to be hiding those assets and income from the Child Maintenance Service; of how many people at what grades that proportion consists; and what recent assessment has been made of the adequacy of that number for the task those staff perform.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	141841
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>As at the end of March 2018, we have 73 people working within the Child Maintenance Financial Investigation Unit, which is comprised of 1 Grade 7, 2 SEOs, 7 HEOs, 51 EOs and 12 AOs. Of these people, all except the AOs are tasked with seeking to identify assets and income of people alleged to be hiding those assets and income. The numbers of people working within the Financial Investigation Unit is reviewed regularly, with the most recent review completing in April 2018. Plans are in place to increase the numbers of people by a further 23 (1 SEO, 2 HEOs and 20 EOs) by December 2018.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 14/05/2018 13:39:42 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

900201

registered interest
date	08/05/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases the Financial Investigation Unit (FIU) has dealt with in the last twelve months for which data are available; in what proportion of those cases has a member of staff in the FIU been tasked with identifying assets and income of those alleged to be hiding such income or assets from the Child Maintenance Service; and how many such cases are outstanding as of 1 May 2018.
tabling member constituency	Bristol South
tabling member printed	Karin Smyth
uin	141842
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service can confirm for the period of April 2017 to March 2018 the Financial Investigations Unit (FIU) received 5746 referrals; during the same period FIU staff have undertaken 3802 investigations relating to total Income/Assets investigations. Our current Work on Hand figure as of 1 May 2018 is 2872 many of which will relate to total Income/Asset Investigations.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 15/05/2018 16:17:33 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4444 label Biography information for Karin Smyth

891867

registered interest
date	25/04/2018
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Child Maintenance Service is currently able to request the provision of P60s to enable calculations of child maintenance to be made; if so, to what extent such powers are used; and if not, whether they plan to allow for the request of P60s in future.
tabling member printed	Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
uin	HL7305
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2018 answer text <p>The calculation of child maintenance is based upon gross income information from the most recent tax year provided directly to the DWP by HMRC. Every year the calculation is updated as new income information is reported to HMRC. A P60 shows income reported to HMRC at the end of the tax year and so would contain this same information. For this reason it is not necessary to use P60s as evidence when calculating maintenance.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 02/05/2018 14:33:11 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4175 label Biography information for Lord Stevenson of Balmacara