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824525

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	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, for what reasons arrears payable for child maintenance that require the Child Maintenance Service to arrange payments via the employer only attract a one off fee rather than an additional percentage charge of the arrear.
	tabling member constituency	Stirling
	tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
	uin	123326
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2018 answer text <p>When the Child Maintenance Service arranges for maintenance payments to be taken directly from the parent’s earnings via the employer, this is done through a Deductions from Earnings Order. The Paying Parent is charged a one off £50 enforcement fee for the Deduction from Earnings Order, as well as on-going collection charges of 20% of the maintenance liability (including any arrears) for using the Collect and Pay service. Charges are designed to encourage compliance.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 22/01/2018 15:29:56 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

824411

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2018
	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, if the Government will issue new guidance to Financial Investigation Units in the Child Maintenance Service for dealing with miscalculations of child maintenance liabilities by paying parents who are self-employed or company directors.
	tabling member constituency	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
	tabling member printed	Ged Killen
	uin	123212
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2018 answer text <p>Current guidance for all Child Maintenance Service caseworkers is to refer cases to the Financial Investigations Unit (FIU) should there be any credible, evidence based challenges to a child maintenance assessment which are unable to be resolved through our routine income verification processes.</p><p> </p><p>The guidance used by FIU Investigators is updated as required in regards to all areas for investigation including possible miscalculations of maintenance for clients who are deemed complex earners.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/01/2018 13:26:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4672 label Biography information for Ged Killen

828715

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2018
	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, how many additional child maintenance payments were made after investigations by HMRC in each year since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	North Swindon
	tabling member printed	Justin Tomlinson
	uin	124363
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text <p>The information is not routinely recorded and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 29/01/2018 17:16:15 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson

834330

	registered interest
	date	31/01/2018
	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, if she will remove the Child Maintenance Service fees for the parent with care in cases where a pay and collect arrangement is required due to non-payment by the non-resident parent.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	125950
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2018 answer text <p>We undertook a 30 Month Review of charging, published August 2017, which did not indicate that charges are having an excessive impact on parents’ decisions when using the Service. We have no plans to change our charging structure, but will continue to monitor the impacts of the child maintenance reforms.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/02/2018 17:00:26 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

834658

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2018
	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	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 money has been accrued to the public purse the Government from (a) Child Maintenance collection charges and (b) Child Maintenance collection charges from victims of domestic abuse since the introduction of those charges.
	tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
	tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
	uin	126106
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>In the three full financial years (2014/15-2016/17) since the introduction of charging, £25.9M has been received by the Child Maintenance Service. £17.7M from paying parents and £3.4M from receiving parents. The remaining £4.8M is made up from application fees and enforcement charges. Information is not available on charges where domestic abuse has been declared.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 07/02/2018 15:06:39 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

837527

	registered interest
	date	05/02/2018
	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	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 the provision of adequate training on the variations system for Child Maintenance Options staff to advise members of the public.
	tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
	tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
	uin	126646
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>Child Maintenance Options provide impartial information to support parents in making the most appropriate maintenance arrangement for their circumstances.</p><p>Child Maintenance Options agents complete a comprehensive training programme and have supporting guidance available to ensure they provide complete and unbiased information to customers, including information about how a child maintenance calculation is worked out and what information is taken into account.</p><p>Child Maintenance Service caseworkers who take applications to the statutory scheme are trained on the detail of the variations system so, in cases where a declaration is made, the variation can be applied appropriately.</p><p>As part of the Compliance and Arrears Strategy the department is reviewing its approach to variations. Appropriate additional training and guidance will be considered as a result.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/02/2018 14:19:50 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

835942

	registered interest
	date	02/02/2018
	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	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 her Department has read the report by Gingerbread published on 12 January 2018 which states that the majority of single parents do not receive child maintenance payments.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Yardley
	tabling member printed	Jess Phillips
	uin	126297
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2018 answer text <p>Officials have read Gingerbread’s report and continue to work closely with a range of external stakeholders when developing policy. The analysis of child maintenance payments referred to in the report is based on data collected in 2011/12, so predates the introduction of the reformed child maintenance scheme in 2013. We want to ensure that children from all separated families have an effective maintenance arrangement. Child Maintenance Options provides free and impartial information to support parents to make arrangements that work for them.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 09/02/2018 14:03:23 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4370 label Biography information for Jess Phillips

838215

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2018
	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	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 extending the 12-month time period within which a child maintenance agreement within a consent order cannot be overruled by the Child Maintenance Service.
	tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
	tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
	uin	127113
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The right of application to the statutory scheme of child maintenance by either parent where a consent order is 12 months or more old ensures that maintenance arrangements best reflect parents’ current circumstances. This aligns with the Child Maintenance Service’s annual review of the paying parent’s liability based on their latest available income figure. We have no plans to change the 12 month time period.</p><p><em></em></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 20/02/2018 12:11:35 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

838301

	registered interest
	date	07/02/2018
	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	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 ensure that people comply with their child maintenance responsibilities.
	tabling member constituency	Brigg and Goole
	tabling member printed	Andrew Percy
	uin	127196
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/02/2018 answer text <p>The Department has wide-ranging powers to collect and enforce child maintenance liabilities where parents will not meet their obligations voluntarily. As of September 2017 11,100 civil enforcement actions were in progress, around 4000 more than the previous year. A public consultation on a new Compliance and Arrears Strategy containing measures aimed at increasing compliance, closed on 8<sup>th</sup> February 2018. A Government response to this consultation will be published in due course.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 20/02/2018 12:45:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	3939 label Biography information for Andrew Percy

843841

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2018
	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	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 Maintenance Group complaints are awaiting allocation to an investigation case manager at the Independent Case Examiner's Office.
	tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
	tabling member printed	David Linden
	uin	128086
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/02/2018 answer text <p>At 20<sup>th</sup> February 2018 there were 252 Child Maintenance Group Complaints awaiting allocation to an investigation case manager.</p><p><em></em></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 23/02/2018 16:45:09 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
	tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden