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780654

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
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 child support agency (a) arrears-only cases and (b) arrears cases involving a current liability for a child there are currently in Glasgow South West constituency.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	110421
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>a) As at June 2017, there were 1,460 arrears only cases in the Glasgow South West constituency held by the Child Support Agency.</p><p> </p><p>b) As at June 2017, there were 130 arrears cases involving a current liability in the Glasgow South West constituency held by the Child Support Agency.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/11/2017 11:44:56 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

780655

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
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 and (b) non-resident parents with a child support agency case there were in the Glasgow South West constituency in the latest period for which figures were available.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	110422
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>a) As at June 2017 there were 1,560 parents with care with a Child Support Agency case in the Glasgow South West constituency.</p><p> </p><p>b) As at June 2017 there were 1,460 non-resident parents with a Child Support Agency case in the Glasgow South West constituency.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/11/2017 11:53:26 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

780658

registered interest
date	30/10/2017
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, whether he plans to review the Child Maintenance Service's practice of allowing a five working days' grace period for non-payment of child maintenance payments.
tabling member constituency	Ceredigion
tabling member printed	Ben Lake
uin	110316
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/11/2017 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) is required to consider the circumstances of the paying parent when scheduling how and when payments are to be made. By setting payments in line with a paying parent’s preferred payment date and frequency, the paying parent is more likely to make the required payments on time.</p><p> </p><p>Before a payment is considered as ‘late’ or ‘missed’, the CMS allow an additional 5 days for payment to be received (either into CMS or direct to the receiving parent). This timescale is applied as different payment options, for instance direct debit, standing order or cheque, all have set clearance times. These clearance times are set by banks and are outside of CMS control. Clearance times can vary from bank to bank and can be affected by the type of account they are made from or to. Clearance times apply to banking or working days and it would not be right to penalise a paying parent if their usual payment date falls on a bank holiday or weekend as their payment would not be processed by the bank. There is no current plan to change the period before which a payment is considered late, though as banking processes evolve we will keep this under review.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/11/2017 11:26:58 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4630 label Biography information for Ben Lake

765467

registered interest
date	06/10/2017
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 his policy is on charges by the Child Maintenance Service when claimants are required to transfer their cases from the Child Support Agency.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	106369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Reforms are designed to support parents to make collaborative child maintenance arrangements where possible. This is why cases within the Child Support Agency are being closed rather than automatically moved to the Child Maintenance Service; at this point parents have the ability to choose the statutory service or make a family based arrangement. Applications to the Child Maintenance Service are subject to an application fee (except where domestic violence is reported) and on-going charges for collect and pay. The Child Maintenance Options service supports parents to make the right choice about child maintenance for their individual circumstances; this may be outside the statutory scheme through a family based arrangement. Our review of charging and its impact was published in August 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/10/2017 15:31:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

757512

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
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 complaints the Child Maintenance Service received in the first six months of 2017 on the 25 per cent threshold for payment reassessment.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	8587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>In the first 6 months of 2017 the CMS has received 25 complaints where the 25% payment reassessment threshold was recorded to be part of, but not necessarily the main driver of, the complaint.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/09/2017 11:36:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

752095

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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 discussions he has had with the Child Maintenance Service on the methods that it uses to ensure that payments are made.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	5051
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service introduced collection and enforcement fees to encourage parents to make a collaborative arrangement and incentivise compliance.</p><p> </p><p>If a paying parent fails to pay on time or in full, we aim to take immediate action to re-establish compliance. If necessary we can deduct on-going maintenance and arrears directly from earnings or from solely held bank accounts.</p><p> </p><p>We also have a range of other strong civil enforcement powers including seizing property, removal of driving licences and commitment to prison.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/07/2017 09:30:05 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

752096

registered interest
date	14/07/2017
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 assessment he has made of the effect of the Child Maintenance Service requiring victims of domestic violence to give their bank details to former partners on the victims' safety and peace of mind; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Chesterfield
tabling member printed	Toby Perkins
uin	5050
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service understands how important it is to ensure that the system works for everyone, including victims of domestic violence and abuse. But we do not believe that a history of domestic violence and abuse has to be a barrier to using the Child Maintenance direct pay service.</p><p> </p><p>When parents have a direct pay arrangement, caseworkers can act as an intermediary and pass information between parents, including bank details, so that the parents do not need to have any contact with each other.</p><p> </p><p>They will also provide information about how to set up a bank account with a centralised sort code, which means that it gives no indication of the possible location of the account holder. Parents can also choose to have the money paid into someone else’s account.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 19/07/2017 09:34:17 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	3952 label Biography information for Mr Toby Perkins

751479

registered interest
date	12/07/2017
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 times in each year of their operation the Child Maintenance Service and its predecessor bodies have paid a consolatory payment to a resident parent.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	4740
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>Figures for consolatory payments to resident parents for the Child Maintenance Service and for the Child Support Agency are provided below:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Financial Reporting Year </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Consolatory Payments Made to Resident Parent</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>(Child Maintenance Service)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>*Dec 2014 to March 2015</p></td><td><p>130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/2016</p></td><td><p>595</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/2017</p></td><td><p>835</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April to June 2017</p></td><td><p>250</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p><strong>Financial Reporting Year </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Consolatory Payments Made</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>(Child Support Agency) </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009/2010</p></td><td><p>7,920</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/2011</p></td><td><p>5,405</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/2012</p></td><td><p>4,130</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/2013</p></td><td><p>4,670</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/2014</p></td><td><p>4,245</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/2015</p></td><td><p>2,835</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/2016</p></td><td><p>1,725</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/2017</p></td><td><p>910</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April to June 2017</p></td><td><p>130</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ol><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest 5.</li><li>We have interpreted resident parent to be Receiving Parent for the Child Maintenance Service and Parent with Care for the Child Support Agency.</li><li>“*” for the Child Maintenance Service for 2014/15 indicates it’s not a full year.</li><li>Figures for the Child Support Agency are for all parents as we are unable to show payments purely to the resident parent.</li></ol> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/07/2017 14:08:11 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

751482

registered interest
date	12/07/2017
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, with reference to paragraph 82 of the 14th Report of the Work and Pensions Committee of 2016-17, Child Maintenance Service, HC 587, whether he plans to implement the recommendation on reinstating provisions for parents to challenge child maintenance awards on the grounds of assets and lifestyle inconsistent with income.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	4758
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/07/2017 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Government welcomes the Work and Pensions Select Committee report and is carefully considering its recommendations. We will submit the Government response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 17/07/2017 14:13:06 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

748314

registered interest
date	04/07/2017
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 bring forward proposals to change the child maintenance calculations from gross to net income to assess the necessary parental contributions required under the new Child Maintenance Service; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Tewkesbury
tabling member printed	Mr Laurence Robertson
uin	2983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/07/2017 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service calculates maintenance liabilities as a percentage of gross weekly income. Using gross annual income data directly from HMRC enables maintenance calculations to be made more quickly and ensures that the income information is as accurate and up to date as possible. My Department has no plans to change the way that statutory maintenance liabilities are calculated.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 10/07/2017 13:26:48 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	253 label Biography information for Mr Laurence Robertson