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1108895

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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, how many historical arrears-only cases from the 1993 and 2003 Child Maintenance Schemes, were on the Child Support Agency's computer systems when the Child Maintenance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 came into force on l4 December, 2018.
tabling member constituency	North East Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg
uin	239343
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The number of historical arrears-only cases from the 1993 and 2003 Child Maintenance Schemes which were on the Child Support Agency’s computer systems when the Child Maintenance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 came into force on 14 December, 2018 is not available.</p><p>The number of historical arrears-only cases on the computer systems at 31st December 2018 was 496,400. This figure was published in the Child Support Agency Quarterly Statistical Summary (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-december-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-december-2018</a>).</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/04/2019 16:04:41 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg

1108897

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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, how many historical arrears-only cases from the 1993 and 2003 Child Maintenance Schemes have been closed by the Child Support Agency since the Child Maintenance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 came into force on 14 December 2018.
tabling member constituency	North East Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg
uin	239344
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and has not previously been published as official statistics, however we expect these new statistics to be published in June 2019. Information on the planned changes to the Child Support Agency Quarterly Statistical Summary to incorporate this information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-support-agency-statistics-publication-strategy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-support-agency-statistics-publication-strategy</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 239345 question first answered 04/04/2019 16:14:32 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg

1108900

registered interest
date	01/04/2019
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 estimate she has made of the amount of historical arrears-only cases from the 1993 to 2003 Child Maintenance Scheme that have been written-off by the Child Support Agency since 14 December 2018.
tabling member constituency	North East Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg
uin	239345
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/04/2019 answer text <p>The information is not readily available and has not previously been published as official statistics, however we expect these new statistics to be published in June 2019. Information on the planned changes to the Child Support Agency Quarterly Statistical Summary to incorporate this information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-support-agency-statistics-publication-strategy" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-support-agency-statistics-publication-strategy</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 239344 question first answered 04/04/2019 16:14:32 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg

1104879

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
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 is taking to ensure that arrears are not discarded without the permission of the parent to whom the arrears are owed when cases are migrated from the Child Support Agency to the Child Maintenance Service.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	236438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>Under the Compliance and Arrears strategy we are writing to clients with CSA debt above certain thresholds to ask if they want us to try to collect their arrears. These thresholds provide a reasonable cut off point to ensure that we do not pursue cases at disproportionate cost to the taxpayer. They are: over £500 and the case is less than 10 years old, and over £1,000 and the case 10 years old or over.</p><p> </p><p>If correspondence is returned as the client is not known at the address held, the Service will attempt to trace a current address in order to reissue the letter.</p><p> </p><p>If a client confirms they want the Service to attempt collection, the case is checked to ensure the debt balance is accurate before arrears are transferred from the CSA IT system to the CMS one.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/04/2019 12:58:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1104918

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
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 sanctions her Department have put in place under the Child Maintenance Service for receiving parents who do not keep the service informed of changes in circumstance that result in a child being no longer eligible for maintenance.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	236550
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>Both paying and receiving parents have a responsibility to inform the Child Maintenance Service of any change in circumstances. There are no sanctions for receiving parents who do not report circumstances where a child is no longer eligible for maintenance. If either party reports changes that confirm a child cannot be treated as a child for the purpose of child maintenance liability, then the Service will update the maintenance calculation. This change can be retrospective, as the effective date of this decision is treated as the date the child ceased to qualify for child maintenance.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/04/2019 12:48:52 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1088765

registered interest
date	14/03/2019
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, when the gross weekly income thresholds for each child maintenance rate of pay were last updated.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	232605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2019 answer text <p>The Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012 introduced a new gross weekly income threshold for child maintenance, for those earning between £800 and £3000 a week.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 19/03/2019 14:19:51 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1083722

registered interest
date	07/03/2019
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, how many non-resident parents are in maintenance arrears through the Child Maintenance Service; and what amount of money is outstanding in such arrears in Lanark and Hamilton East constituency.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	229814
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2019 answer text <p>The number of paying parents in maintenance arrears, and the amount of unpaid maintenance on their cases as of September 2018 for the constituency of Lanark and Hamilton East are outlined in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>Number of paying parents with unpaid maintenance</p></td><td><p>Amount of unpaid maintenance (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Lanark and Hamilton East</p></td><td><p>190</p></td><td><p>290,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Note: Paying parents are rounded to the nearest 10, unpaid maintenance is rounded to the nearest £10,000.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 12/03/2019 16:06:08 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

1082682

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
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 powers the Child Maintenance Group has to recover funds from a parent reluctant to support their child or children; and how many times each power has been used in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Birkenhead
tabling member printed	Frank Field
uin	229125
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2019 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service has a range of collection and enforcement powers, including deducting directly from a non-resident parent’s earnings; lump sum and regular deductions from a range of bank accounts; deductions from benefits; sharing non-compliant parents’ information with credit reference agencies; instructing enforcement agents to take control of goods; placing a charging order on property owned by a non-compliant parent and if necessary forcing the sale of the property; applying to the magistrates court to disqualify a non-compliant parent from holding or obtaining a driving licence or British passport, or to commit them to prison.</p><p> </p><p>The latest statistics on the actions taken by the Child Maintenance Service to recover funds from non-compliant parents are published in Table 11 (“Enforcement Actions”) of the Child Maintenance Service Statistics. This includes data from June 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This highlights different enforcement actions taken by the Child Maintenance Service, including the number of times each type of action has been initiated each quarter. It is available online at: <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>The latest publication contains figures complete to the end of September 2018. Child Maintenance Service statistics up to the quarter ending December 2018 will be published in March 2019.</p><p> </p><p>Please note we do not publish a full detailed breakdown of all the possible types of enforcement actions used, and we do not have such information readily available. Also note that figures are rounded to the nearest 100.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/03/2019 16:04:41 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	478 label Biography information for Lord Field of Birkenhead

1078621

registered interest
date	27/02/2019
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, whether any records pertaining to the historical arrears-only cases from the 1993 and 2003 Child Maintenance Schemes been destroyed, deleted or removed from the Child Maintenance Service since the Child Maintenance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 came into force on 14 December 2018.
tabling member constituency	North East Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg
uin	226667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>There have been no records destroyed, deleted or removed from the Child Maintenance Service since the Child Maintenance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 came into force on 14 December 2018.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 04/03/2019 15:50:40 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg

1078622

registered interest
date	27/02/2019
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, how much in arrears accrued under the historical arrears-only cases from the 1993 and 2003 Child Maintenance Schemes has been written-off since the Child Maintenance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 came into force on 14 December 2018.
tabling member constituency	North East Somerset
tabling member printed	Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg
uin	226668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>The Department routinely publishes information on the 1993 and 2003 Child Maintenance schemes in the CSA Quarterly Summary of Statistics, available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics--2</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The next CSA Quarterly Summary of Statistics is due to be released in May. This will include statistics on the amount of historical arrears written off and the number of cases closed since the Child Maintenance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 came into force.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 226669 question first answered 04/03/2019 15:59:43 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4099 label Biography information for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg