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1127583

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	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 ensure child maintenance payments are made on time by employers.
	tabling member constituency	Rhondda
	tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
	uin	256284
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>A welcome pack is issued to each new employer which is followed up with a telephone call to a specific person in payroll to check they understand the Deductions from Earnings Order (DEO) process and the employers obligation, to deduct payments on time from employee salary. Each month thereafter, a target schedule is sent to the employer’s payroll department.</p><p> </p><p>For existing employers a target schedule is also sent and a phone call will have taken place when we initially requested deductions to be taken.</p><p> </p><p>If employers don’t make the payment to CMS on time we will call that employer 5 working days after the missed payment to investigate late payment and re-iterate their obligations to CMS.</p><p> </p><p>Where employers repeatedly fail to send payments, we will work with them to understand what we need to do in order to reach compliance. At this point we also work alongside our Financial Investigations Unit, where we might consider a face to face visit to the employer is appropriate. This will take place with trained investigators, who will also remind employers of their legal obligation to deduct and pass on child maintenance payments.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 23/05/2019 15:55:19 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

1127584

	registered interest
	date	20/05/2019
	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 support is provided to parents who do not receive child maintenance payments on time.
	tabling member constituency	Rhondda
	tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
	uin	256285
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/05/2019 answer text <p>It is a key principle that unpaid child maintenance should be paid immediately. Where a non-resident parent fails to pay on time or in full, we aim to take immediate action to recover the unpaid maintenance and re-establish compliance.</p><p> </p><p>Where compliance is not achieved and the non-resident parent is employed we will attempt to deduct their maintenance (and/or any arrears) direct from their earnings via a deduction from earnings order. Employers are obliged by law to take this action for us.</p><p> </p><p>We have a range of other strong enforcement powers, including deducting child maintenance directly from bank accounts, using Enforcement Agents to take control of goods, forcing the sale of property, disqualification from driving or commitment to prison as well as restrictions on applying for and holding a passport.</p><p> </p><p>As part of our new Compliance and Arrears Strategy we have further strengthened our collection and enforcement powers to enable us to deduct child maintenance from a wider range of bank accounts and enable us to apply to the court for an order to disqualify a parent with child maintenance arrears from holding or obtaining a UK passport.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 23/05/2019 15:39:00 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
	tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant

1121894

	registered interest
	date	18/04/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Skin Cancer: Medical Treatments
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the NHS has spent on providing skin cancer treatment in each of the last five years.
	tabling member constituency	Rhondda
	tabling member printed	Chris Bryant
	uin	245692
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/04/2019 answer text <p>The requested information is not collected centrally.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 30/04/2019 12:26:25 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
	tabling member	1446 label Biography information for Sir Chris Bryant