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1178763

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2020
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many non-resident parents were fined for non-payment of child maintenance in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	15112
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service does not fine Paying Parents for not paying their child maintenance. They do however recover the unpaid child maintenance through the use of enforcements actions such as deductions from earrings orders, deduction orders and civil enforcement. In cases where the Child Maintenance Service believe the Paying Parent can pay, but are refusing to do so they can apply to the courts to send the Paying Parents to prison, disqualifying them from holding or obtaining a passport or driving licence. The figures described can be found in the quarterly National Tables for the Child Maintenance Service statistics (data to September 2019), Table 12 (“Enforcement Actions”). This is available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-september-2019-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-september-2019-experimental</a></p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/02/2020 13:40:02 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1540554

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2022
	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	Bereavement Support Payment and Widowed Parent's Allowance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people have claimed (a) Widowed Parent's Allowance and (b) the Bereavement Support Payment since the eligibility of those payments was extended to surviving cohabiting partners with dependent children who were not in a legal union with the deceased on the date of death.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	82390
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2022 answer text <p><strong> </strong></p><p>We cannot currently accept claims for Widowed Parent’s Allowance or Bereavement Support Payment from those who were not in a legal union with their deceased partner. This is because the draft Bereavement Benefits (Remedial) Order, which proposes to extend eligibility for these benefits to surviving cohabiting partners with dependent children, has not yet become law. We laid the draft Order in Parliament on 13 October 2022. It will lay in Parliament for a 60-day period, and will need to be debated and voted upon in both Houses of Parliament before it can become law.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 14/11/2022 17:00:17 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1178762

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2020
	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 steps she is taking to ensure that employers are complying with the seven day deadline of deduction from earnings orders, to ensure child maintenance is deducted from the parents pay.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	15111
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>To ensure that employers meet their obligations to deduct child maintenance from earnings, the Child Maintenance Group (CMG) has taken the following steps:</p><p> </p><ul><li>new employers are issued with a comprehensive welcome pack detailing their role and responsibilities;</li><li>the CMG has a dedicated Employer Payment Team (EPT) to assist and support employers with this process;</li><li>EPT call every employer new to CMG within seven days and talk them through our welcome pack;</li><li>we have enhanced specific procedures and training for Deduction from Earnings Orders (DEO) to ensure they are implemented promptly and accurately;</li><li>we have established DEO ambassadors to assist caseworkers across our organisation; and</li><li>we ensure Enforcement action where an employer is deemed non-compliant.</li></ul> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/02/2020 13:25:27 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1178761

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2020
	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 of the Child Maintenance Service’s deduction from earnings orders for child maintenance were not complied with in 2018.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	15110
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>Information relating to the number of Deduction from Earnings Orders / Requests being used to collect child maintenance each quarter, and their compliance is published online as part of the quarterly Child Maintenance Service statistics. The latest publication includes information to September 2019. This is available here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-september-2019-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-september-2019-experimental</a></p><p> </p><p>The requested information is published in the National Tables, Table 12 (“Enforcement Actions”).</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/02/2020 13:13:06 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

1178760

	registered interest
	date	12/02/2020
	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 steps her Department is taking to help ensure that paying parents do not delay settlement of their child maintenance liabilities.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	15109
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) continues to take steps to improve compliance, and deal with non-compliance before enforcement action is needed. Where compliance cannot be achieved and the parent is employed, we will attempt to deduct their maintenance and any arrears directly from their earnings. The CMS can also deduct directly from bank accounts as a lump sum or regular amount. We have a range of other strong enforcement powers, including the use of Enforcement Agents to take control of goods, forcing the sale of property, disqualification from holding a UK passport or commitment to prison.</p> answering member constituency Mid Sussex answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 24/02/2020 12:50:05 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

862112

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	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 she has made of the number of people using limited companies to declare incorrect incomes to avoid child support payments in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	132531
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not collect data on paying parents who use limited companies. The Child Maintenance Service obtains income information directly from HMRC and includes almost all sources of income declared to that Department for tax purposes. The specially trained Financial Investigation Unit (FIU) is able to look into cases where there is concern about a parent’s income. The FIU has been expanded since it was set up in 2014; and between October and December 2017 it opened over 1200 complex earner investigations. We recently consulted on a new Child Maintenance Compliance and Arrears strategy which proposed further improvements to the treatment of the income of complex earners, such as high value assets owned by a parent being used to create a notional income. Our response to the consultation will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 132530 question first answered 21/03/2018 12:06:10 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

862111

	registered interest
	date	14/03/2018
	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 she has taken to reduce the number of people declaring incorrect incomes to avoid child support payments in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	132530
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/03/2018 answer text <p>The Department does not collect data on paying parents who use limited companies. The Child Maintenance Service obtains income information directly from HMRC and includes almost all sources of income declared to that Department for tax purposes. The specially trained Financial Investigation Unit (FIU) is able to look into cases where there is concern about a parent’s income. The FIU has been expanded since it was set up in 2014; and between October and December 2017 it opened over 1200 complex earner investigations. We recently consulted on a new Child Maintenance Compliance and Arrears strategy which proposed further improvements to the treatment of the income of complex earners, such as high value assets owned by a parent being used to create a notional income. Our response to the consultation will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse grouped question UIN 132531 question first answered 21/03/2018 12:06:10 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

765733

	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 estimate he has made of the number of people declaring incorrect incomes to avoid child support payments in the last 12 months.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	105878
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>The requested information is not readily available and can only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 12/10/2017 13:32:39 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

752833

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	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: Poverty
	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 children were in poverty in Ogmore constituency in each year for which data is available.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	5180
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>National statistics on the number of children in relative low income are set out in the annual &quot;Households Below Average Income&quot; publication. The number and proportion of children in relative low income is not available at local authority or constituency level in this publication because the survey sample sizes are too small to support the production of robust estimates at this geography.</p><p> </p><p>Latest 3-year estimates for Wales of the proportion and number of children in low income are available in Table 4.16ts and Table 4.17ts in the file “4_children_timeseries_risk” from this link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/599136/hbai-2015-2016-supporting-ods-files.zip" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/599136/hbai-2015-2016-supporting-ods-files.zip</a></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 20/07/2017 10:58:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore

846864

	registered interest
	date	22/02/2018
	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	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Mining
	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 Industry Injury Advice Council's guidance that Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease can only be diagnosed for miners who have worked for more than 20 years in an underground environment.
	tabling member constituency	Ogmore
	tabling member printed	Chris Elmore
	uin	129038
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2018 answer text <p>The Secretary of State is advised by the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council (IIAC) which is a non-departmental public body made up of independent experts, representatives of employers and employees on matters relating to the Industrial Injuries Scheme.</p><p> </p><p>The Council’s primary role is to make recommendations about which diseases should be included in the list of diseases covered by the Industrial Injuries Scheme and the prescription criteria for those diseases.</p><p> </p><p>The legal framework underpinning the Industrial Injuries Scheme makes it clear that compensation should not be paid for a disease unless a link between a particular occupation and the disease can be established or presumed with reasonable certainty. A link is presumed where there is evidence that, on the balance of probabilities, work in the prescribed job or occupational exposure doubles the risk of developing the disease.</p><p> </p><p>The Council’s recommendations around Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease are that to establish a presumed link between occupation and disease, a miner would have to work for a minimum of 20 years underground to have sufficient exposure to coal dust. This recommendation was accepted when the disease was added to the scheme and was reflected in the prescription criteria.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Truro and Falmouth answering member printed Sarah Newton question first answered 27/02/2018 16:41:38 answering member 4071 label Biography information for Sarah Newton
	tabling member	4572 label Biography information for Chris Elmore