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1235109

registered interest
date	16/09/2020
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 she has made of the effectiveness in preventing fraudulent samples being provided of the DNA testing used by the Child Maintenance Service.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	91085
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/09/2020 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service DNA testing process requires the person attending the DNA sampling to provide photographic evidence and the DNA test sampler to verify that the person attending is the person in the photo. The photos are retained in case of future challenge.</p><p> </p><p>If a negative DNA test result is challenged, it is referred to the Financial Investigation Unit’s Criminal Division for investigation.</p><p> </p><p>Those found to be abusing the system are subject to the full extent of our enforcement powers and the Child Maintenance Service will pursue these, where appropriate.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 21/09/2020 16:46:42 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1231951

registered interest
date	07/09/2020
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	Disability
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what progress she has made on the National Strategy for Disabled People.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	86094
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2020 answer text <p>The National Strategy for Disabled People is a key manifesto commitment for this Government and its delivery remains important for ministers, including No. 10. Its significance is even greater, as we re-build the UK's economy and society in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>We want to achieve practical changes for disabled people, which remove barriers and increase opportunity, and are engaging widely with stakeholders including via Ministerial and official-led roundtables, a Disabled People’s Organisations forum, our Regional Stakeholder Network, and other meetings. We will also, through online engagement and other routes, enable disabled people to directly share views and insights on key challenges, as a central voice as the Strategy is developed. Through this work and further engagement, we plan to publish the high ambition strategy that the Prime Minister has called for in Spring 2021.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/09/2020 12:45:31 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1226985

registered interest
date	21/07/2020
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	Disability: Coronavirus
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 the Government’s Covid-19 recovery strategy, what steps she is taking to ensure that disabled people can live independent lives as the UK recovers from the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	77691
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting disabled people affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. We continue to monitor the impact of COVID-19 on disabled people using existing and new data sources.</p><p> </p><p>The Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work has had discussions with charities, disabled people's organisations and individuals to understand the range of experiences disabled people have had during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify the support needed as lockdown restrictions are eased.</p><p> </p><p>We are ensuring that disabled people continue to have access to disability benefits, food, medicines, essentials, accessible communications, updated guidance, including workplace and transport related guidance, as well as financial and other support during the COVID-19 outbreak.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to provide disability employment support through initiatives such as Access to Work, Disability Confident, the Work and Health Programme, Intensive Personalised Employment Support, and other forms of support that disabled people need to retain, adapt and move into employment.</p><p> </p><p>The Cabinet Office Disability Unit continues to work with disability stakeholders and across Government Departments to ensure that the needs of disabled people are considered in the UK Government’s response to COVID-19. We are clear that consideration of equality impacts must be integral in all key policy decisions. All equality and discrimination laws and obligations continue to apply during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish the National Strategy for Disabled People taking into account the impacts of the pandemic on disabled people. The Strategy will focus on the issues that disabled people say affect them the most in all aspects and phases of life, including employment, housing, education and transport.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 78772 question first answered 01/09/2020 14:43:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1226987

registered interest
date	21/07/2020
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	Employment: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to ensure that all businesses provide reasonable adjustments for (a) disabled employees and (b) people at higher risk from covid-19 as employees return to their workplaces.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	77693
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2020 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Members to question 62298 answered by my Hon. Friend the Minster for Small Business, Consumers and Labour Markets on 30th June. https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2020-06-22/62298/</p><p> </p><p>I can further advise, DWP’s new Employer Help site provides advice on employment of disabled people, explaining how Access to Work and Disability Confident can help businesses to ensure their practices are fair and inclusive.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 77710 question first answered 01/09/2020 13:31:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1221058

registered interest
date	06/07/2020
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 she has made of the potential merits of a minimum maintenance payment for parents with care under the Child Maintenance Service to guarantee a minimum maintenance income.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	69605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>There is no plan for any such assessment. The purpose of the Child Maintenance Service is to facilitate the payment of child maintenance between separated parents.</p><p> </p><p>No one should use the pandemic as an excuse to avoid their child maintenance payments. Where paying parents experience a change in income, we can review their case and check if the amount paid should change. If it does not, they should continue to make payments.</p><p> </p><p>We know the majority of parents take their responsibilities extremely seriously and will do what is needed to ensure their children are supported.</p><p /><p /> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/07/2020 16:25:42 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1221061

registered interest
date	06/07/2020
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, in how many cases child maintenance was not collectable as a result of a Child Maintenance Service administrative error when a deduction from earnings request was made to the armed forces in each quarter of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	69606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service does not record this data as there is no facility on the Child Maintenance System to record instances when a Deduction from Earning Request has been rejected by MoD or where an administrative error occurred.</p><p> </p><p>As the information requested is not collated centrally it would require examination of individual cases and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/07/2020 16:29:59 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1220617

registered interest
date	03/07/2020
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 much child maintenance was (a) paid and (b) owed in the second quarter of 2020 in (i) Motherwell and Wishaw constituency, (ii) North Lanarkshire, and (iii) Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	68722
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>Child Maintenance statistics are published quarterly and the latest statistics to March 2020 are available here:</p><p><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>Statistics covering the second quarter of 2020 will not be published until September 2020.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 68723 question first answered 09/07/2020 16:33:19 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 35810 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1220618

registered interest
date	03/07/2020
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 and what proportion of parents registered with the child maintenance service (a) paid and (b) did not pay maintenance in the second quarter of 2020 in (i) Motherwell and Wishaw constituency, (ii) North Lanarkshire, and (iii) Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	68723
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>Child Maintenance statistics are published quarterly and the latest statistics to March 2020 are available here:</p><p><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>Statistics covering the second quarter of 2020 will not be published until September 2020.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies grouped question UIN 68722 question first answered 09/07/2020 16:33:19 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 35811 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1220619

registered interest
date	03/07/2020
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	Child Maintenance Service: Scotland
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much is owed in outstanding arrears under the child maintenance service in (a) Motherwell and Wishaw constituency, (b) North Lanarkshire, and (c) Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	68724
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2020 answer text <p>As of the end of March 2020, across the whole of Great Britain, a total of £3.6 billion maintenance has been arranged through the Child Maintenance Service since its inception in 2012.</p><p> </p><p>The total amount of arrears for Child Maintenance Service in Motherwell and Wishaw constituency, North Lanarkshire and Scotland in March 2020 are given in the following table:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Total amount of arrears for Child Maintenance Service, March 2020</strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong> Total arrears (£)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>24,019,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Lanarkshire</p></td><td><p>1,752,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Motherwell and Wishaw</p></td><td><p>460,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong>Source</strong>: Child Maintenance Group administrative data</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ol><li>These figures do not include cases in which historical child maintenance arrears, originally arranged by the Child Support Agency, have been transferred to the CMS for collection.</li></ol><ol start="2"><li>The figures have been rounded to the nearest £1000.</li></ol> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 08/07/2020 16:45:17 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1220620

registered interest
date	03/07/2020
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	Child Maintenance Service: Scotland
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) children are registered with the child maintenance service in (i) Motherwell and Wishaw constituency, (ii) North Lanarkshire, and (iii) Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	68725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/07/2020 answer text <p>The number of Receiving Parents using the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) and the number of associated children subject to a CMS arrangement, in Motherwell and Wishaw constituency, North Lanarkshire and Scotland in March 2020 are given in the following table:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Number of Receiving Parents using the Child Maintenance Service and the number of associated children, March 2020</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Receiving Parents</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Children</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>36,500</p></td><td><p>52,500</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Lanarkshire</p></td><td><p>2,700</p></td><td><p>3,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Motherwell and Wishaw</p></td><td><p>700</p></td><td><p>1,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong><br> <br> </strong></p><p><strong>Source</strong>: Child Maintenance Group administrative data</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ol><li>These figures do not include cases in which historical child maintenance arrears, originally arranged by the Child Support Agency, have been transferred to the CMS for collection.</li><li>Counts of children include all children under the age of 20 who are associated with an open child maintenance arrangement. Some of these children, of age 16 or above, may no longer be considered qualifying children for the purposes of calculating the Paying Parent's liability.</li><li>All figures have been rounded to the nearest 100.</li></ol> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 09/07/2020 16:33:51 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies previous answer version 35812 answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows