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91655

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
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 guidance his Department has given to the Child Maintenance Service and Child Support Agency about parents who repeatedly report changes in circumstances.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	209116
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Where a person’s circumstances change, they are entitled to report them to the Child Suport Agency (CSA) or Child Maintenance Service (CMS). Where the reported change has substantive grounds for superseding an existing decision, the CSA / CMS will investigate that change applying the usual evidential requirements or supersession rules.</p><p>Case officers have access to online procedures that provide a comprehensive guide on all aspects of handling child maintenance applications including procedures, policies and legislative references.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/10/2014 11:45:11 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

91656

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
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 estimate his Department has made of the cost to the Child Maintenance Service and Child Support Agency of repeated changes of circumstances in child support maintenance by either parent in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	209117
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/10/2014 10:43:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

91657

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
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 income the (a) Child Maintenance Service and (b) Child Support Agency received from telephone calls to its hotlines in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	209118
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>No income has been received by either the Child Maintenance Service or the Child Support Agency from telephone calls to its hotlines since 2010.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/10/2014 10:38:57 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

91658

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
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 cases involving parents who did not give the right information to the Child Maintenance Service or Child Support Agency were (a) successfully taken to court and (b) received the maximum fine in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	209119
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>For cases administered by the Child Support Agency, information is only available on the number of cases where action was taken for misrepresentation of evidence, which is provided in the table below. Information is not available on the overall number of cases referred to court or the value of the fine imposed.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of cases where action taken for misrepresentation of evidence</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2009 – March 2010</p></td><td><p>30</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2010 – March 2011</p></td><td><p>40</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2011 – March 2012</p></td><td><p>55</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2012 – March 2013</p></td><td><p>60</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013 – March 2014</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The 2012 child maintenance scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, was opened to all new applicants on 25 November 2013. We are not yet in a position to release full statistics, therefore we are unable to provide you with the information requested. When system data becomes available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p> </p><p>1. Figures rounded to nearest 5.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/10/2014 13:33:27 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

91659

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
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 Child Maintenance Service or Child Support Agency has dealt with of either parent changing their circumstances more than 10 times in 18 months in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	209120
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The information is not available and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/10/2014 10:35:14 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

91663

registered interest
date	11/09/2014
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 individual change of circumstances the Child Maintenance Service or Child Support Agency has processed in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Ashfield
tabling member printed	Gloria De Piero
uin	209149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>For cases administered by the Child Support Agency, information on the number of individual change of circumstances output, is only readily available from November 2010. Information broken down by financial year from April 2011 is provided in the table below.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Number of change of circumstance outputs</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2011 – March 2012</p></td><td><p>2,930,868</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2012 – March 2013</p></td><td><p>3,204,127</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April 2013 – March 2014</p></td><td><p>2,948,445</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Note:</p><p>The information is provided for GB cases only</p><p>The 2012 child maintenance scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, was opened to all new applicants on 25 November 2013. We are not yet in a position to release full statistics, therefore we are unable to provide you with the information requested. When system data becomes available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/10/2014 10:02:33 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3915 label Biography information for Gloria De Piero

91582

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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 (a) parents with care commitments and (b) non-resident parents have (i) registered with the Child Maintenance Service since 30 June 2014 and (ii) chosen to use the new Collect and Pay service since 11 August 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	208927
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Information on the number of new applications received to the 2012 statutory scheme is available in Table 1, on page 7, of the Experimental Official Statistics on the 2012 Scheme administered by the Child Maintenance Service available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/359363/2012-child-maintenance-scheme-experimental-statistics-september-2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/359363/2012-child-maintenance-scheme-experimental-statistics-september-2014.pdf</a>.</p><p>Information on the chosen method of payment of those who are due to pay maintenance is available in Table 3 on page 9 of the above link.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/10/2014 09:21:03 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

91583

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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, if he will estimate the number of children in poverty affected by the changes to the child maintenance system introduced from 30 June 2014; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	208928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>An assessment of the number of children in poverty affected by the changes to the child maintenance system introduced from 30 June 2014 could only be made at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for Work and Pensions does not generally record the income or circumstances of the families in receipt of child maintenance, only the income or benefit status of the parent liable to pay child maintenance.</p> answering member constituency Wirral West answering member printed Esther McVey question first answered 13/10/2014 13:05:30 answering member 4084 label Biography information for Esther McVey
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

91585

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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 average weekly child maintenance payment received via the Child Support Agency was for parents with care commitments in 2013-14.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	208925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>For cases administered by the Child Support Agency the average weekly maintenance liability can be found on page 18 of the Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics for June 2014 at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/347753/csa_qtr_summ_stats_jun14i.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/347753/csa_qtr_summ_stats_jun14i.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/10/2014 09:25:40 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell

91586

registered interest
date	10/09/2014
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 parents with (a) care commitments and (b) children were in receipt of child maintenance paid via the Child Support Agency on 29 June 2014.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne North
tabling member printed	Catherine McKinnell
uin	208924
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/10/2014 answer text <p /> <p>As at the quarter ending June 2014, there were 431,700 parents with care receiving maintenance via the Child Support Agency collection service and 595,100 children benefiting from maintenance received.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 13/10/2014 09:30:04 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	4125 label Biography information for Catherine McKinnell