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982560

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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 (a) passports and (b) driving licenses have been removed from people for non-payment of child maintenance; and how many people received a custodial sentence for non-payment of child maintenance in the last year for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	South West Bedfordshire
tabling member printed	Andrew Selous
uin	176035
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Child Support regulations recently laid in Parliament include changes to enable the Child Maintenance Service to disqualify a paying parent with child maintenance arrears from holding or obtaining a UK passport. These changes are expected to come into force in November subject to them gaining Parliamentary approval.</p><p>The number of driving licences removed and the number of custodial sentences as a result of non-payment of child maintenance for the period of June 2017 to June 2018 is as follows:</p><ul><li>Immediate disqualification from driving 7</li><li>Immediate imprisonment 4</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/10/2018 09:32:14 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	1453 label Biography information for Andrew Selous

982640

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer of 6 September 2018 to Question 169510 on Children: Maintenance; what criteria is used to decide the (a) principal provider of care and (b) proportion of the associated costs of day to day care when that care is shared.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	176386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/10/2018 answer text <p>The principle provider of care for the purpose of child maintenance is the person who has the main day to day care of the child. This person is referred to as the Receiving Parent as they are entitled to receive child maintenance. The Child Maintenance Service will primarily determine who the Receiving Parent is based on eligibility for Child Benefit.</p><p> </p><p>Where day to day care is equally shared neither parent is required to pay child maintenance.</p><p> </p><p>Child maintenance payments are reduced to take account of the cost of overnight care provided by the parent who pays maintenance. The proportion of the reduction is based on the average number of nights a child stays with the other parent, up to a maximum reduction of 50%.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/10/2018 09:48:46 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

983153

registered interest
date	08/10/2018
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 information her Department holds on the level of successful collections of child maintenance for (a) employed payees and (b) self employed payees.
tabling member constituency	Bristol West
tabling member printed	Thangam Debbonaire
uin	176376
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2018 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service includes two service types: ‘Direct Pay’ where payments are arranged and agreed between parents, and ‘Collect &amp; 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> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 16/10/2018 16:11:07 question first ministerially corrected 12/11/2018 12:22:59 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson previous answer version 78842 answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4433 label Biography information for Thangam Debbonaire

972378

registered interest
date	12/09/2018
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 claimants her Department has supported to provide non-geographic bank account details to the paying parent in each year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	174076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/10/2018 answer text <p>Child Maintenance Service supports victims of domestic violence in a number of ways. One of which is enabling notification issued to paying parents which provide non-geographic bank details, in respect of the receiving parents bank details.</p><p> </p><p>On investigating this request, I can confirm that we do not report on the notifications issued and therefore we cannot provide the volumes as requested</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 09/10/2018 14:36:37 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

971441

registered interest
date	10/09/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2018 to Question 164825 on Children: Maintenance, for how many cases (a) payment was received and (b) payment was received in full within 12 weeks of application in each year for which information is available.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	172403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/09/2018 answer text <p>(a) The latest statistics on the number of paying parents each quarter by the Child Maintenance Service are published in Table 7 of the Child Maintenance Service: Aug 2013 to Mar 2018 (experimental) statistics available online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-mar-2018-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-mar-2018-experimental</a></p><p>Information up to the end of June 2018 is due to be published on 26<sup>th</sup> September 2018.</p><p> </p><p>(b) We do not monitor the level of payments received within 12 weeks of an application. Payment is not expected to commence at the point of application; there is a period during which the amount of child maintenance liability is calculated and information from all parties is gathered before a payment schedule is put in place. Payment towards this liability is expected to be arranged within 12 weeks of a payment schedule being agreed between all parties, but this may vary depending on the exact circumstances of the case.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 13/09/2018 08:16:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

969150

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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 effectiveness of the 2012 Child Maintenance Scheme computer system to process in a timely manner service requests for (a) a new child maintenance scheme claim, (b) a change of circumstances, (c) a variation request, (d) chasing arrears, and (e) enforcement action.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	171425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The 2012 Child Maintenance System (CMS2012) provides support for the full range of child maintenance administrative processes including new applications, case maintenance and enforcement.</p><p> </p><p>A Service Improvement Programme was established in April 2018, to optimise the performance and stability of the system. Significant improvements have already been implemented through both hardware and software upgrades. These changes have already resulted in quicker response times for users and compared with the period June 2017 to September 2017, the average response time of the core case management system has reduced by over 50%. We are continually working with the system’s users to make further improvements.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/09/2018 12:13:43 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

969151

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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 Service Requests for (a) a new child maintenance scheme claim, (b) a change of circumstances, (c) a variation request, (d) chasing arrears, and (e) undertaking enforcement action remain outstanding in the 2012 Child Maintenance Scheme computer system.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	171426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>As at the end of August 2018 the following CMS case SRs remained outstanding;</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Applications</p></td><td><p>8,518</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Change of Circumstances</p></td><td><p>89,518</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Variations</p></td><td><p>4,469</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Arrears</p></td><td><p>38,354</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Enforcement</p></td><td><p>36,975</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/09/2018 13:49:36 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

969152

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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 hours the Child Maintenance System has been (a) unavailable to staff and (b) working with reduced performance in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	171427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>We record all incidents where the 2012 Child Maintenance Service has not been available for staff. Over the last six months, this has been:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Month</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Minutes lost</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Hours Lost</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>% Availability</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>1230</p></td><td><p>20.5</p></td><td><p>97.73%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>April</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>0</p></td><td><p>100.00%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>May</p></td><td><p>103</p></td><td><p>1.72</p></td><td><p>99.70%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td><td><p>99.93%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>July</p></td><td><p>30</p></td><td><p>0.5</p></td><td><p>99.91%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Aug</p></td><td><p>180</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>99.62%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Although we manage periods of reduced performance as incidents, there is no formal measure for degraded service as these may impact sub-sets of system users differently.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/09/2018 11:55:38 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

969153

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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 processing hours for Child Maintenance service requests were lost as a result of (a) technical and (b) IT faults in the last six months.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	171428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>We record all incidents where the 2012 Child Maintenance System has not been available to staff but we are unable to analyse this data by technical and IT faults. On average over the last six months, the hours lost have been 4.37 hours per month.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/09/2018 12:06:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon

969154

registered interest
date	06/09/2018
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 plans to undertake an assessment of the effectiveness of the Child Maintenance Scheme computer system; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North Tyneside
tabling member printed	Mary Glindon
uin	171429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/09/2018 answer text <p>The effectiveness of the Department’s systems including the 2012 Child Maintenance System is continuously reviewed. A service improvement programme was established in April 2018 and has resulted in better performance, more stability, fewer incidents and a reduction in known problems.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 14/09/2018 12:11:38 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4126 label Biography information for Mary Glindon