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1648265

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2023
	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 make an assessment of the amount in child maintenance payments (a) not paid by paying parents and (b) not received by receiving parents when the paying parent's income has been misreported in each financial year since 2009-10.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	191467
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service does not hold the information to fully respond to the request.</p><p> </p><p>The Department publishes quarterly Child Maintenance Service (CMS) statistics, with the latest statistics available to the end of December 2022 <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-december-2022-experimental" target="_blank">here</a>. Table 6 of the National Tables provides the total amount of uncollected child maintenance from March 2015 – December 2022.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 03/07/2023 15:15:36 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1648269

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2023
	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 steps his Department is taking to help ensure that paying parents report their income (a) promptly and (b) accurately to the Child Maintenance Service.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	191471
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>As a principal part of the service design the Department uses data from HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) and its own benefits data to assess 91% of Paying Parents earned income and benefit status, which are key parts of the maintenance calculation.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Child Maintenance service allows both paying and receiving parents to request a change to the assessment if they believe that the paying parent’s income has changed by more than 25% compared to the most recent figures provided by HMRC. This can be done online, over the telephone or in writing. Customer communications highlight the obligations of parents to provide information and the consequences of failure to comply or misrepresentation.</p><p> </p><p>Where a paying parent receives unearned income which can be legally considered in assessing child maintenance either parent can request a variation to the normal maintenance calculation. Cases involving suspected misrepresentation or fraudulent behaviour can be looked into by the Financial Investigation Unit (FIU). This is a specialist team which can request information from financial institutions to check the accuracy of information the CMS is given.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 03/07/2023 15:13:48 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1648268

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2023
	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 paying parents had child maintenance arrears of more than (a) £1,000, (b) £5,000 and (c) £10,000 in each financial year since 2009-10.
	tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
	tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
	uin	191470
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service does not currently hold the information requested. The number of paying parents with arrears as of the 31<sup>st</sup> of March each year between 2018 and 2023 has been provided.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="6"><p><strong>Number of Paying Parents</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Arrears</strong></p></td><td><p>Mar-18</p></td><td><p>Mar-19</p></td><td><p>Mar-20</p></td><td><p>Mar-21</p></td><td><p>Mar-22</p></td><td><p>Mar-23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>More than £1,000 but less than or equal to £5,000</p></td><td><p>45,800</p></td><td><p>56,800</p></td><td><p>65,200</p></td><td><p>68,600</p></td><td><p>76,800</p></td><td><p>85,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>More than £5,000 but less than or equal to £10,000</p></td><td><p>6,500</p></td><td><p>10,300</p></td><td><p>13,600</p></td><td><p>15,900</p></td><td><p>18,100</p></td><td><p>20,600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>More than £10,000</p></td><td><p>1,300</p></td><td><p>2,600</p></td><td><p>4,300</p></td><td><p>6,000</p></td><td><p>7,500</p></td><td><p>9,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Source: Child Maintenance Service Administrative Data</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><ol><li>All figures are rounded to the nearest 100. Totals may not sum due to rounding.</li><li>The figures supplied are derived from unpublished information and have not been quality assured to National Statistics or Official Statistics publication standard. They should therefore be treated with caution.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 03/07/2023 15:08:59 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

1648284

	registered interest
	date	27/06/2023
	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	Department for Work and Pensions: Artificial Intelligence
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department uses natural language processing to analyse communications from claimants.
	tabling member constituency	Leicester South
	tabling member printed	Jonathan Ashworth
	uin	191354
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>DWP uses natural language processing to analyse communications with our customers via Telephony.</p><p> </p><p>This includes Speech Analytics, Call Routing and Call Transcription. All of this is to improve the customer experience and assist our customers in accessing the services within the department.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 03/07/2023 15:13:30 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4244 label Biography information for Jonathan Ashworth

1648509

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2023
	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	Working Hours: Health and Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether his Department plans to consult on health and safety protections for night workers.
	tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
	tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
	uin	191548
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>Under the <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.legislation.gov.uk%2Fukpga%2F1974%2F37%2Fcontents&amp;data=05%7C01%7CKim.Ross%40hse.gov.uk%7C8fbcc28320fb4b0f62a508db53010cc2%7C6b5953be6b1d4980b26b56ed8b0bf3dc%7C0%7C0%7C638195037351883756%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=TZAL0Ta4Pi7tR79IobZvUVU0ktEf87fF%2FpIn2KglW3A%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974</a> all employers have a duty, so far as it is reasonably practicable, to protect the health, safety, and welfare at work of all their employees. Specifically, the <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.legislation.gov.uk%2Fuksi%2F1999%2F3242%2Fcontents%2Fmade&amp;data=05%7C01%7CKim.Ross%40hse.gov.uk%7C8fbcc28320fb4b0f62a508db53010cc2%7C6b5953be6b1d4980b26b56ed8b0bf3dc%7C0%7C0%7C638195037351883756%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=%2BRE1dRAESIKGFmcI2yDwYhkylPdFUHzOvVazfdPEOCc%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999</a> require employers to assess the health and safety risks to employees, to which they are exposed whilst they are at work, and to put in place arrangements to control those risks.</p><p> </p><p>Reducing ill health at work is an important area of focus for the Health and Safety Executive, as outlined in their strategic objectives, however there are no current plans to consult on health and safety protections for night workers.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 03/07/2023 15:11:29 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1648533

	registered interest
	date	28/06/2023
	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	Parental Pay: Self-employed
	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 make it his policy to extend adoption pay to self-employed people who have a child via surrogacy.
	tabling member constituency	Richmond Park
	tabling member printed	Sarah Olney
	uin	191630
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government has no plans to extend adoption pay to self-employed people who have a child via surrogacy.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 03/07/2023 15:11:28 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4591 label Biography information for Sarah Olney