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<p>The Child Maintenance Service includes two service types: ‘Direct Pay’ where payments
are arranged and agreed between parents, and ‘Collect & Pay’ where payments are
collected and paid to the receiving parent by Child Maintenance Service.</p><p>The
Department does not record data for direct pay compliance. If the paying parent <ins
class="ministerial">does not</ins><del class="ministerial">don't</del> pay they can
be moved onto the Collect and Pay at the discretion of the child maintenance service.
The department does hold data on the compliance of Collect and Pay arrangements. Please
refer to Table 7 of the Child Maintenance Service Statistics.</p><p> </p><p>Data on
compliance is recorded separately to data on employment status<ins class="ministerial">
and cannot be easily linked. The information requested is not readily available and
to provide it would incur disproportionate cost</ins>.<del class="ministerial"> Although
the department does hold some of the data to answer your question we estimate the
cost of complying with your request would exceed the appropriate limit for central
government, set by regulation at £600.This represents the estimated cost of one person
spending 3 and half working days in determining whether the department holds the information,
locating, retrieving and extracting it. We believe it would take longer than 3 and
half days to match the compliance of a paying parent with their employment status.
As a result, under section 12 of the Freedom of information Act the department is
not therefore obliged to comply with your request and we will not be processing it
further.</del></p><p> </p><p>The Child Maintenance Service Statistics <del class="ministerial">which
shows overall compliance</del> <ins class="ministerial">ca</ins>n be found here:</p><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-august-2013-to-june-2018-experimental"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-august-2013-to-june-2018-experimental</a></p><p>
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