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765467

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 his policy is on charges by the Child Maintenance Service when claimants are required to transfer their cases from the Child Support Agency.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	106369
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2017 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Reforms are designed to support parents to make collaborative child maintenance arrangements where possible. This is why cases within the Child Support Agency are being closed rather than automatically moved to the Child Maintenance Service; at this point parents have the ability to choose the statutory service or make a family based arrangement. Applications to the Child Maintenance Service are subject to an application fee (except where domestic violence is reported) and on-going charges for collect and pay. The Child Maintenance Options service supports parents to make the right choice about child maintenance for their individual circumstances; this may be outside the statutory scheme through a family based arrangement. Our review of charging and its impact was published in August 2017.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/10/2017 15:31:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

765617

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, why the Child Maintenance Service allows non-resident parents £2,500 of unearned income that is not factored into payment plans; and whether he plans to review this policy.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	106137
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/10/2017 answer text <p>Calculation of a child maintenance liability is based on gross income information provided directly to the Child Maintenance Service by HMRC. <del class="ministerial">Individuals are required to declare unearned income not taxed at source which does not exceed £2500 a year to HMRC, which already enables HMRC to include it in the income information they provide.</del> Unearned income exceeding £2500 a year is dealt with by HMRC through tax self-assessment <del class="ministerial">and is picked up in a child maintenance calculation through an unearned income variation. We have no plans to review this.</del><ins class="ministerial">The treatment of unearned income for child maintenance purposes is aligned with this for administrative efficiency. We are inviting views on the future treatment of &quot;income&quot; within the recently published Compliance and Arrears Strategy consultation.</ins></p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 12/10/2017 13:56:00 question first ministerially corrected 01/02/2018 17:10:55 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse previous answer version 14051 answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

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

759851

registered interest
date	12/09/2017
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, how much is owed to resident parents by non-resident parents in child support arrears in (a) Hull and (b) the East Riding of Yorkshire in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	10095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2017 answer text <p>The table below shows the amount of Child Support Agency arrears owed by non-resident parents to parents with care in Kingston upon Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire as of June 2017;</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local Authority</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Arrears owed</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Kingston upon Hull</p></td><td><p>£20,028,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Riding of Yorkshire</p></td><td><p>£18,737,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This can be found in the regional data tables published as part of the Child Support Agency quarterly summary of statistics, available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-june-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-june-2017</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 18/09/2017 15:37:42 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy

758314

registered interest
date	06/09/2017
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, how much is owned to resident parents by non-resident parents in child support arrears in each local authority in Scotland in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Aberdeen North
tabling member printed	Kirsty Blackman
uin	9076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2017 answer text <p>Child Support Agency</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>As at July 2017 the total amount of Child Support Agency Arrears for each Local Authority in Scotland was as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Local Authority </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Arrears owed (£ Million)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberdeen</p></td><td><p>8.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aberdeenshire</p></td><td><p>10.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Angus</p></td><td><p>5.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Argyll &amp; Bute</p></td><td><p>4.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Clackmannanshire</p></td><td><p>2.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dumfries &amp; Galloway</p></td><td><p>6.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dundee</p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Ayrshire</p></td><td><p>6.9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Dunbartonshire</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Lothian</p></td><td><p>4.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>East Renfrewshire</p></td><td><p>2.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Edinburgh</p></td><td><p>12.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Falkirk</p></td><td><p>7.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Fife</p></td><td><p>19.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glasgow</p></td><td><p>28.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Highland</p></td><td><p>11.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Inverclyde</p></td><td><p>4.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Midlothian</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Moray</p></td><td><p>4.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Ayrshire</p></td><td><p>8.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North Lanarkshire</p></td><td><p>19.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Orkney Islands</p></td><td><p>0.8</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Perth &amp; Kinross</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Renfrewshire</p></td><td><p>8.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scottish Borders</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Shetland</p></td><td><p>1.3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Ayrshire</p></td><td><p>5.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>South Lanarkshire</p></td><td><p>14.5</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stirling</p></td><td><p>3.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Dunbartonshire</p></td><td><p>5.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>West Lothian</p></td><td><p>8.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Western Isles</p></td><td><p>1.2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Child Maintenance Service</p><p> </p><p>Information on the total value of arrears on cases in each Local Authority in Scotland for the Child Maintenance Service could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>1) Numbers are rounded to the nearest 100,000.</p><p> </p><p>2) Cases have been allocated to a local authority in Scotland by matching the residential postcode of the parent with care for all cases administered on the CS2 and CSCS computer systems, as well as cases managed off system, to the Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 15/09/2017 11:32:20 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4357 label Biography information for Kirsty Blackman

757512

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
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, how many complaints the Child Maintenance Service received in the first six months of 2017 on the 25 per cent threshold for payment reassessment.
tabling member constituency	Hove
tabling member printed	Peter Kyle
uin	8587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>In the first 6 months of 2017 the CMS has received 25 complaints where the 25% payment reassessment threshold was recorded to be part of, but not necessarily the main driver of, the complaint.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/09/2017 11:36:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4505 label Biography information for Peter Kyle

757839

registered interest
date	05/09/2017
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, whether his Department plans to bring forward proposals to include redundancy payments and savings in the mandatory disclosure to the Child Maintenance Service in the event of loss of employment by the paying parent.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Stephen Kerr
uin	8807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>We have no plans to require parents to routinely disclose information about redundancy payments or savings as they are not taken into account as income within the calculation, nor can arrears be deducted from a redundancy payment prior to it being deposited into a bank account. Child maintenance arrears can be enforced against both savings and redundancy payments which have been paid out to the non-resident parent.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/09/2017 12:04:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4604 label Biography information for Stephen Kerr

756262

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
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 the total amount of child maintenance arrears was in (a) Glasgow East constituency and (b) Scotland in the latest period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	7652
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>Child Support Agency <br></p><p>a) As at July 2017 the total value of arrears on Child Support Agency cases in the Glasgow East constituency stood at £5.50m.</p><p> </p><p>b) As at July 2017 the total value of arrears on Child Support Agency cases in Scotland stood at £243.22m.</p><p> </p><p>Child Maintenance Service</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Information on the total value of arrears on cases in the Glasgow East, and in Scotland, for the Child Maintenance Service could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>1) Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10,000.</p><p> </p><p>2) Cases have been allocated to Glasgow East parliamentary constituency by matching the residential postcode of the parent with care for all cases administered on the CS2 and CSCS computer systems, as well as cases managed off system, to the Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/09/2017 14:07:16 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

756264

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
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, how many Child Support Agency (a) arrears-only and (b) arrears cases involving a current liability for a child there are in Glasgow East constituency.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow East
tabling member printed	David Linden
uin	7653
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>a) As at July 2017, there were 1,520 arrears only cases in the Glasgow East constituency held by the Child Support Agency.</p><p> </p><p>b) As at July 2017, there were 160 arrears cases involving a current liability in the Glasgow East constituency held by the Child Support Agency.</p><p> </p><p>Notes:<br></p><p>1) Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10.</p><p> </p><p>2) Cases have been allocated to a Glasgow East parliamentary constituency by matching the residential postcode of the parent with care for all cases administered on the CS2 and CSCS computer systems, as well as cases managed off system, to the Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory.</p><p> </p><p>3) A case is classed as having a ‘Current Liability’ if it is open, has children of a qualifying age and has a positive liability (i.e. assessment to pay maintenance). This includes cases due to pay via Maintenance Direct.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/09/2017 11:59:31 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4640 label Biography information for David Linden

756841

registered interest
date	04/09/2017
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, whether the Child Support Agency applies a de minimis limit for investigating allegations of fraud.
tabling member constituency	Milton Keynes South
tabling member printed	Iain Stewart
uin	7846
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2017 answer text <p>No minimum threshold is applied for investigating allegations of fraud related to child maintenance by either the Child Support Agency or the Child Maintenance Service, allegations of this kind are considered on a case by case basis.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 11/09/2017 11:45:22 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4015 label Biography information for Iain Stewart