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536182

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications have been issued in England and Wales for financial provision for the children of unmarried parents under schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 in each year since 2000.
tabling member constituency	Warrington South
tabling member printed	David Mowat
uin	42645
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2016 answer text <p>A parent is entitled to apply for an order under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 regardless of marital status. Information on marital status is not collected in relation to Schedule 1 applications. Applications can also be made by a person who is a special guardian for the child or by a person with whom the child is living under a child arrangements order. The number of all applications issued under Schedule 1 over the period is set out in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>YEAR</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>No. of Applications</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2000</p></td><td><p>556</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2001</p></td><td><p>604</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2002</p></td><td><p>585</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2003</p></td><td><p>599</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2004</p></td><td><p>675</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2005</p></td><td><p>677</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2006</p></td><td><p>637</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2007</p></td><td><p>702</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2008</p></td><td><p>615</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2009</p></td><td><p>507</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2010</p></td><td><p>529</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2011</p></td><td><p>472</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012</p></td><td><p>504</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>467</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>588</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>650</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p> answering member constituency Bracknell answering member printed Dr Phillip Lee question first answered 22/07/2016 12:35:12 answering member 3921 label Biography information for Dr Phillip Lee
tabling member	4080 label Biography information for David Mowat

536319

registered interest
date	13/07/2016
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 timescale is for closing the 1993 and 2003 child support allowance IT systems before they reach end of usable life.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	42680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s timetable for the closure of the 1993 and 2003 child support allowance IT systems is currently under consideration.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 18/07/2016 15:12:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

533634

registered interest
date	07/07/2016
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, with reference to the Answer of 1 December 2015 to Question 17582, what his Department's timetable is for the closure of the remaining arrears-only Child Support Agency cases after the three-year cases closure programme involving cases with an on-going liability is completed.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	42169
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/07/2016 answer text <p>The Department’s timetable for the closure of Child Support Agency arrears only cases is currently under consideration.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 12/07/2016 14:43:39 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

533004

registered interest
date	05/07/2016
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 families accessed support from the Child Support Agency in (a) St Helens North constituency, (b) the North West and (c) the UK in (i) 2011 and (ii) 2012.
tabling member constituency	St Helens North
tabling member printed	Conor McGinn
uin	41944
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/07/2016 answer text <p>We do not have information on the number of families who accessed support. Information has been provided in the table on the caseload at the end of the year, which will differ from the number of families supported as cases may be linked to the same family.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><br><p><p> </p></td><td><br><p>Dec-11</p><p> </p><p> </p></td><td><br><p>Dec-12</p><p> </p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><br><p>St Helens Constituency</p><p> </p></td><td><br><p>2,630</p><p> </p></td><td><br><p>2,600</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><br><p>North West</p><p> </p></td><td><br><p>155,400</p><p> </p></td><td><br><p>149,400</p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><br><p>UK</p><p> </p></td><td><br><p>1,140,500</p><p> </p></td><td><br><p>1,154,000</p><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p /><p /> <p> </p><p> </p><p /><p> </p><p /><p> </p><p /><p> </p><p /><p>Notes:</p><ul><li>Figures rounded to the nearest 10 for St Helen’s constituency and nearest 100 for the North West and UK.</li><li>Figures are the number of live and assessed cases.</li><li>Figures are as at December 2011 and 2012.</li><li>The methodology for estimating the overall caseload changed in December 2013 and information after this date will not be comparable.</li></ul> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 11/07/2016 16:33:41 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4458 label Biography information for Conor McGinn

528166

registered interest
date	20/06/2016
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 he has made of the implications for his policies of the findings of Gingerbread's report, Missing Maintenance, published in June 2016; what plans he has to implement the recommendations of that report; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	41088
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2016 answer text <p>We are currently considering the recommendations contained in the Gingerbread report, Missing Maintenance. In relation to the recommendation on deductions from joint bank accounts, we have already started taking steps to implement this power and will be launching a public consultation soon on our proposed process to enable deductions from joint bank accounts.</p><p>We remain committed to pursuing those parents who do not willingly meet their financial responsibilities to their children. The Child Maintenance Service has a range of effective enforcement powers intended to help ensure all parents fulfil their financial responsibilities towards their children including taking deductions directly from earnings and bank accounts.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 29/06/2016 12:37:12 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

528169

registered interest
date	20/06/2016
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 24 May 2016 to Question 37683, on child maintenance arrears, on how many occasions his Department has used each of the enforcement powers referred to in that Answer in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	41053
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2016 answer text <p>For the 1993 and 2003 Schemes the information you requested is set out on Page 40 of the Child Support Agency quarterly summary of statistics which can be accessed online at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-march-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-march-2016</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on enforcement for the 2012 scheme could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 29/06/2016 13:42:15 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

525723

registered interest
date	15/06/2016
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 families have accessed support from the (a) Child Maintenance Service and (b) Child Support Agency in each (i) parliamentary constituency and (ii) local authority in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Glenrothes
tabling member printed	Peter Grant
uin	40836
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>The attached excel file (PQ40836) provides the number of cases administered by the Child Support Agency (CSA) by (i) parliamentary constituency and (ii) local authority in each of the last three years.</p><p> </p><p>With regard to cases administered by the Child Maintenance Service, the information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes for the spreadsheet</p><p> </p><p>1. Figures rounded to nearest 10</p><p>2. Figures are the number of live cases.</p><p>3. Figures are as at December 2013, 2014 and 2015</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 27/06/2016 12:33:11 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel attachment 1 file name PQ40836.xlsx title Excel attachment for PQ40836
tabling member	4466 label Biography information for Peter Grant

525727

registered interest
date	15/06/2016
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 referrals of child maintenance debtors to credit reference agencies have been made since the power to do so was introduced in March 2015.
tabling member constituency	Westminster North
tabling member printed	Ms Karen Buck
uin	40757
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2016 answer text <p>The Department is committed to the policy of referring those defaulting on their child maintenance payments to credit reference agencies.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>We are currently working with the credit reference agencies to develop a secure process to ensure safe and accurate data sharing.</p><p> </p><p>As at 17 June 2016 there are a total of 686 cases prepared and ready to share with credit reference agencies; we will disclose this information with credit reference agencies once an appropriate process is in place.</p><p> </p><p>In interim we continue to issue warning letters to prompt action by non-resident parents to settle their arrears, and will where appropriate consider other enforcement actions on these cases.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 27/06/2016 10:31:39 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	199 label Biography information for Ms Karen Buck

524294

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
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 27 May 2016 to Question 37474, how many full-time equivalent officials of his Department are responsible for any debt collection activity that the CMS system is undertaking to ensure that former Child Support Agency child maintenance arrears are received.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	40130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>Where CSA arrears are moved across to the CMS system we will actively pursue collection where the CSA clients fall within three specific scenarios. These include firstly where a re-application has been made to CMS relating to the same case; secondly where the CSA arrears were being paid in the last 3 months prior to being moved over to the CMS system; and finally where a client actively requests we collect them.</p><p> </p><p>Given this approach to the collection of these CSA arrears, they are collected through our business-as-usual processes within our Case Maintenance, Arrears and Enforcement Teams within CMS, where at June 2016 there were 3,256 full time equivalent staff.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/06/2016 16:17:16 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

524295

registered interest
date	09/06/2016
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 27 May 2016 to Question 37474, on children: maintenance, what specific areas of case closure require less effort than earlier analysis suggested.
tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
uin	40131
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2016 answer text <p>The impact assessment was completed in 2013, well before CSA cases started to be closed. These numbers have since been reviewed to reflect the experiences of the case closure journey. The initial estimate of £103m to review the cases has reduced to £75m as the updating work has taken less time than assumed when the impact assessment was completed. The initial estimate to set up the arrears on the CMS system was £20m and this is proving to take longer than anticipated, with the latest estimate at £26m. The revised figures are still subject to further change as we move more cases and update estimates.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 14/06/2016 16:23:37 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe