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1360704

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Child Maintenance Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average time taken was between the Child Maintenance Service’s decision to take an enforcement measure and it being implemented, in respect of the 12,200 enforcement measures that were in process by the Child Maintenance Service at the end of June 2021.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	58424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>This information is not collated as a matter of normal business and is only available at disproportionate cost to the Department.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 26/10/2021 12:28:38 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1360705

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Child Maintenance Service
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 Service Collect & Pay cases have had their arrears cleared to £0 in the last 24 months; and what proportion that represents of total Collect & Pay cases in the same time period.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	58425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>This information is not collated as a matter of normal business and is only available at disproportionate cost to the Department.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 26/10/2021 12:25:56 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1360706

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Child Maintenance Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average length of time taken was for Collect & Pay case arrears to be cleared from April 2019 to April 2021.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	58426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>This information is not collated as a matter of normal business and is only available at disproportionate cost to the Department.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 26/10/2021 13:15:53 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1360707

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Child Maintenance Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in how many cases was money recovered under the Child Maintenance Service Collect & Pay service from April 2019 to April 2021; and what proportion of total Collect & Pay cases that represents in the same time period.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	58427
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>From the quarter ending September 2019 to the quarter ending June 2021, 173,000 out of 194,000 cases had money recovered under the Child Maintenance Service Collect &amp; Pay service.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 26/10/2021 12:24:15 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1360708

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Child Maintenance Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of the £60.9 million of child maintenance due and paid through Collect & Pay in 2020-21 is (a) arrears repayments and (b) monthly standard liability.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	58428
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>The total amount of child maintenance paid each quarter through Child Maintenance Service Collect &amp; Pay and of that, the total paid towards arrears, from April 2020 to March 2021, is shown in Table 1. It shows that of the £170.4 million paid, £35.6 million was paid towards arrears.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1: The total amount of child maintenance paid each quarter through Child Maintenance Service Collect &amp; Pay and of that, the total paid towards arrears, from April 2020 to March 2021.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Quarter</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Arrears Paid (£ millions)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total Amount Paid (£ millions)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>June</p></td><td><p>8.7</p></td><td><p>41.7</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>September</p></td><td><p>8.0</p></td><td><p>41.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>December</p></td><td><p>8.7</p></td><td><p>42.2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>March</p></td><td><p>10.2</p></td><td><p>45.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>35.6</p></td><td><p>170.4</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Source</strong>: Child Maintenance Group administrative data</p><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ol><li>Figures are rounded to the nearest £100,000.</li><li>The figures provided are for child maintenance only and do not include fees for the use of the service.</li><li>This calculation does not include unpaid child maintenance transferred to the CMS from the Child Support Agency.</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 26/10/2021 12:20:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1360711

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Child Maintenance Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in what proportion of current Child Maintenance Service Collect & Pay cases are has (a) all money due been paid, (b) no money due been paid, (c) 1 to 25 per cent of money due has paid, (d) 26- to 50 per cent of money due been paid, (e) 51 to 75 per cent of money due been paid and (f) 76 to 99 per cent of money due been paid.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	58429
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>Child Maintenance Service (CMS) compliance statistics for Paying Parents are published quarterly and can be found in “Table 2: Compliance (Collect and Pay) by quarter” of the “CMS Paying Parents” section of Stat-Xplore here:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Guidance on how to extract the information required can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html" target="_blank">https://stat-xplore.dwp.gov.uk/webapi/online-help/Getting-Started.html</a></p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 26/10/2021 13:17:54 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1360712

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Child Maintenance Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in how many of the current Child Maintenance Service Collect & Pay cases has payment been delayed; and in how many cases has the delay been (a) 0 to 6 months, (b) 6 to 12 months, (c) 12 to 18 months, (d) 18 to 24 months and (e) over 24 months.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	58430
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>This information is not collated as a matter of normal business and is only available at disproportionate cost to the Department.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 26/10/2021 13:19:21 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1360713

registered interest
date	18/10/2021
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	Child Maintenance Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the 2020-21 Child Maintenance Service statistics release, for what reason there are 7,100 unassigned arrangements for the Child Maintenance Service; and what steps her Department is taking to reduce that number.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	58431
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2021 answer text <p>Unassigned arrangements are cases where the applications process is not yet complete.</p><p>The latest Child Maintenance Service (CMS) statistics show that over 90% of applications are usually cleared within 12 weeks. The statistics can be found in “Table 1: Applications to the Child Maintenance Service, Great Britain, July 2020 to June 2021” of the National Tables of the latest Child Maintenance Service (CMS) publication here:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-june-2021-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-june-2021-experimental</a></p><p>Applications are considered 'cleared' when one of the following occurs:</p><p>a) the amount of child maintenance to be paid has been calculated and an arrangement to pay maintenance between the two parents has been agreed;</p><p>b) the amount of child maintenance to be paid has been calculated as zero; or</p><p>c) the child maintenance application has been closed.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 26/10/2021 12:23:50 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1141443

registered interest
date	23/07/2019
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	Child Maintenance Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has collected through the Child Maintenance Service's (a) four per cent and (b) twenty per cent collection fees under Collect and Pay in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	281113
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>Income received through the Child Maintenance Service collection charges from 2014/15 through to 2017/18 is as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>2014/15</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2015/16</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2016/17</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2017/18</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>£m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£m</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>£m</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>PP Collection Charge</p></td><td><p>20%</p></td><td><p>1.649</p></td><td><p>5.573</p></td><td><p>10.494</p></td><td><p>16.878</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>RP Collection Charge</p></td><td><p>4%</p></td><td><p>0.325</p></td><td><p>1.086</p></td><td><p>2.026</p></td><td><p>3.241</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>The 2018/19 Child Maintenance Service Annual Report and Accounts have not been audited yet so we are unable to include figures from this period in PQ responses.</p><p>Income received is used to offset the administration cost of the Child Maintenance Group.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 03/09/2019 13:24:44 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

1141444

registered interest
date	23/07/2019
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	Child Maintenance Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much revenue her Department has collected through the Child Maintenance Service's £20 application fee in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	281114
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2019 answer text <p>Income received from the Child Maintenance Service £20 Application fee from 2014/15 through to 2017/18 is as follows:</p><p> </p><p>2014/15 £0.828m</p><p>2015/16 £1.692m</p><p>2016/17 £1.799m</p><p>2017/18 £1.520m</p><p> </p><p>The 2018/19 Child Maintenance Service Annual Report and Accounts have not been audited yet so we are unable to include figures from this period in PQ responses.</p><p>Income received is used to offset the administration cost of the Child Maintenance Group.</p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 03/09/2019 12:58:50 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows