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<p>The Child Maintenance Service has a range of collection and enforcement powers,
including deducting directly from a non-resident parent’s earnings; lump sum and regular
deductions from a range of bank accounts; deductions from benefits; sharing non-compliant
parents’ information with credit reference agencies; instructing enforcement agents
to take control of goods; placing a charging order on property owned by a non-compliant
parent and if necessary forcing the sale of the property; applying to the magistrates
court to disqualify a non-compliant parent from holding or obtaining a driving licence
or British passport, or to commit them to prison.</p><p> </p><p>The latest statistics
on the actions taken by the Child Maintenance Service to recover funds from non-compliant
parents are published in Table 11 (“Enforcement Actions”) of the Child Maintenance
Service Statistics. This includes data from June 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This
highlights different enforcement actions taken by the Child Maintenance Service, including
the number of times each type of action has been initiated each quarter. It is available
online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-the-2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-the-2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme</a>.</p><p>
</p><p>The latest publication contains figures complete to the end of September 2018.
Child Maintenance Service statistics up to the quarter ending December 2018 will be
published in March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Please note we do not publish a full detailed
breakdown of all the possible types of enforcement actions used, and we do not have
such information readily available. Also note that figures are rounded to the nearest
100.</p>
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