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671652

registered interest
date	11/01/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, in how many cases parents with care have alerted HM Revenue and Customs to potential tax fraud by the non-resident parent in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
uin	59664
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) uses information from a wide range of sources, including third party information, to carry out civil and criminal investigations. These have secured over £126 billion in additional compliance revenue since 2010. It is not possible to say how many parents have provided information as HMRC does not centrally collate the management information in this format, nor does it centrally collate information regarding how many prosecutions and investigations have been instigated as a result of allegations of false tax returns in respect of child maintenance liabilities.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s 26,000 (FTE) strong customer compliance group workforce of risk and intelligence analysts, compliance officers and fraud investigators tackle the full range of compliance risks. HMRC compliance staff are assigned to cases across all HMRC risks and customer behaviours and the cases typically involve investigating a range of potential issues. Therefore it is not possible to state exactly how many staff are deployed to a single specific risk, as this will be one of many issues a compliance officer could cover.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC and the Department for Work and Pensions have been working together on Child Maintenance issues since 2009. During this time, both departments have worked collaboratively to increase their knowledge of the IT and business processes and to develop and improve the way in which they share information. There is no joint formal training programme in place but HMRC has led awareness sessions for Child Maintenance Group (CMG) on HMRC processes and interpreting PAYE and Self-Assessment data. HMRC also provides on-going assistance to CMG to help them resolve issues as and when required.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 59665 59666 59667 59668 question first answered 18/01/2017 14:26:03 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach

671654

registered interest
date	11/01/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many prosecutions have been instigated in each of the last three years by HM Revenue and Customs in respect of false tax returns by non-resident parents where the false return has reduced that parent's liability for child maintenance.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
uin	59665
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) uses information from a wide range of sources, including third party information, to carry out civil and criminal investigations. These have secured over £126 billion in additional compliance revenue since 2010. It is not possible to say how many parents have provided information as HMRC does not centrally collate the management information in this format, nor does it centrally collate information regarding how many prosecutions and investigations have been instigated as a result of allegations of false tax returns in respect of child maintenance liabilities.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s 26,000 (FTE) strong customer compliance group workforce of risk and intelligence analysts, compliance officers and fraud investigators tackle the full range of compliance risks. HMRC compliance staff are assigned to cases across all HMRC risks and customer behaviours and the cases typically involve investigating a range of potential issues. Therefore it is not possible to state exactly how many staff are deployed to a single specific risk, as this will be one of many issues a compliance officer could cover.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC and the Department for Work and Pensions have been working together on Child Maintenance issues since 2009. During this time, both departments have worked collaboratively to increase their knowledge of the IT and business processes and to develop and improve the way in which they share information. There is no joint formal training programme in place but HMRC has led awareness sessions for Child Maintenance Group (CMG) on HMRC processes and interpreting PAYE and Self-Assessment data. HMRC also provides on-going assistance to CMG to help them resolve issues as and when required.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 59664 59666 59667 59668 question first answered 18/01/2017 14:26:03 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach

671655

registered interest
date	11/01/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many investigations have been instigated by HM Revenue and Customs as a result of allegations of false tax returns in respect of child maintenance liabilities in each of the last three financial years.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
uin	59666
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) uses information from a wide range of sources, including third party information, to carry out civil and criminal investigations. These have secured over £126 billion in additional compliance revenue since 2010. It is not possible to say how many parents have provided information as HMRC does not centrally collate the management information in this format, nor does it centrally collate information regarding how many prosecutions and investigations have been instigated as a result of allegations of false tax returns in respect of child maintenance liabilities.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s 26,000 (FTE) strong customer compliance group workforce of risk and intelligence analysts, compliance officers and fraud investigators tackle the full range of compliance risks. HMRC compliance staff are assigned to cases across all HMRC risks and customer behaviours and the cases typically involve investigating a range of potential issues. Therefore it is not possible to state exactly how many staff are deployed to a single specific risk, as this will be one of many issues a compliance officer could cover.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC and the Department for Work and Pensions have been working together on Child Maintenance issues since 2009. During this time, both departments have worked collaboratively to increase their knowledge of the IT and business processes and to develop and improve the way in which they share information. There is no joint formal training programme in place but HMRC has led awareness sessions for Child Maintenance Group (CMG) on HMRC processes and interpreting PAYE and Self-Assessment data. HMRC also provides on-going assistance to CMG to help them resolve issues as and when required.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 59664 59665 59667 59668 question first answered 18/01/2017 14:26:04 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach

671656

registered interest
date	11/01/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many staff of HM Revenue and Customs work on dealing with allegations of false tax returns by non-resident parents seeking to avoid child maintenance liabilities.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
uin	59667
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) uses information from a wide range of sources, including third party information, to carry out civil and criminal investigations. These have secured over £126 billion in additional compliance revenue since 2010. It is not possible to say how many parents have provided information as HMRC does not centrally collate the management information in this format, nor does it centrally collate information regarding how many prosecutions and investigations have been instigated as a result of allegations of false tax returns in respect of child maintenance liabilities.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s 26,000 (FTE) strong customer compliance group workforce of risk and intelligence analysts, compliance officers and fraud investigators tackle the full range of compliance risks. HMRC compliance staff are assigned to cases across all HMRC risks and customer behaviours and the cases typically involve investigating a range of potential issues. Therefore it is not possible to state exactly how many staff are deployed to a single specific risk, as this will be one of many issues a compliance officer could cover.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC and the Department for Work and Pensions have been working together on Child Maintenance issues since 2009. During this time, both departments have worked collaboratively to increase their knowledge of the IT and business processes and to develop and improve the way in which they share information. There is no joint formal training programme in place but HMRC has led awareness sessions for Child Maintenance Group (CMG) on HMRC processes and interpreting PAYE and Self-Assessment data. HMRC also provides on-going assistance to CMG to help them resolve issues as and when required.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 59664 59665 59666 59668 question first answered 18/01/2017 14:26:04 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach

671657

registered interest
date	11/01/2017
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many joint training events have taken place in each of the last three years between staff from the Child Maintenance Service, the Department of Work and Pensions and HM Revenue and Customs in order to ensure understanding of circumstances relating to potential avoidance of maintenance payments to single parent families.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
uin	59668
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/01/2017 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) uses information from a wide range of sources, including third party information, to carry out civil and criminal investigations. These have secured over £126 billion in additional compliance revenue since 2010. It is not possible to say how many parents have provided information as HMRC does not centrally collate the management information in this format, nor does it centrally collate information regarding how many prosecutions and investigations have been instigated as a result of allegations of false tax returns in respect of child maintenance liabilities.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC’s 26,000 (FTE) strong customer compliance group workforce of risk and intelligence analysts, compliance officers and fraud investigators tackle the full range of compliance risks. HMRC compliance staff are assigned to cases across all HMRC risks and customer behaviours and the cases typically involve investigating a range of potential issues. Therefore it is not possible to state exactly how many staff are deployed to a single specific risk, as this will be one of many issues a compliance officer could cover.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC and the Department for Work and Pensions have been working together on Child Maintenance issues since 2009. During this time, both departments have worked collaboratively to increase their knowledge of the IT and business processes and to develop and improve the way in which they share information. There is no joint formal training programme in place but HMRC has led awareness sessions for Child Maintenance Group (CMG) on HMRC processes and interpreting PAYE and Self-Assessment data. HMRC also provides on-going assistance to CMG to help them resolve issues as and when required.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison grouped question UIN 59664 59665 59666 59667 question first answered 18/01/2017 14:26:04 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach

659664

registered interest
date	15/12/2016
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 much has accrued to the public purse from enforcement charges for non-compliance with child maintenance commitments by paying parents in each year since that system has been in operation.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	57808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave the hon. Member for Glasgow South West on 4<sup>th</sup> November 2016 [<a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-11-01/51323/" target="_blank">51323</a>] which reflects the information to March 2016 audited by National Audit Office as part of the 2015/16 Audit. Information on fees in the financial year to date will not be available until audit of the 2016/17 Client Funds Account has been completed.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/12/2016 14:46:19 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

659665

registered interest
date	15/12/2016
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 guidance and training is provided by his Department for staff administering the child maintenance scheme on working with parents who have been victims of domestic violence.
tabling member constituency	Edinburgh North and Leith
tabling member printed	Deidre Brock
uin	57806
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/12/2016 answer text <p>When a client first makes a call to the Child Maintenance Options service they have the opportunity to declare if they have experienced domestic violence which allows us to understand whether or not it is appropriate to waive the £20 application fee. This information will be passed to the Child Maintenance Service Applications Caseworker who will use subtle probing questions to gather further information.</p><p> </p><p>Child Maintenance Caseworkers and Child Maintenance Options agents receive a significant amount of behavioural training around managing sensitive and difficult client interactions that will equip them to deal with clients professionally and empathetically. This training is not specifically related to domestic violence, however following recent feedback we are engaging with stakeholders to develop the enhanced learning packages to include this.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/12/2016 15:50:07 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4417 label Biography information for Deidre Brock

649557

registered interest
date	01/12/2016
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 4 November 2016 to Question 51323, what the monthly receipts to the public purse were from (a) fees charged for applications to the Child Maintenance Service (CMS), (b) collection fees for paying parents using the CMS collect and pay service, (c) collection fees for receiving payments using the CMS collect and pay service and (d) enforcement fees levied on paying parents in each month from April to November 2016.
tabling member constituency	Glasgow South West
tabling member printed	Chris Stephens
uin	55905
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2016 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston on 24<sup>th</sup> November 2016 [53614].</p><p> </p><p>Information on fees in the financial year to date will not be available until audit of the 2016/17 Client Funds Account has been completed.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 06/12/2016 14:30:32 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4463 label Biography information for Chris Stephens

648900

registered interest
date	30/11/2016
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 requests for the child maintenance service's collect and pay service came from (a) resident and (b) non-resident parents in (i) 2013-14, (ii) 2014-15, and (iii) 2015-16; and how many children such requests related to in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	55590
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2016 answer text <p>Information on the number of cases using the collect and pay service is only available from August 2014. As at the end of March 2015, 28,600 cases were using the collect and pay service and this figure increased to 51,800 cases as at the end of March 2016.</p><p> </p><p>More details can be found on page 8 of the Child Maintenance Scheme quarterly summary of statistics which can be accessed online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/564183/child-maintenance-service-2012-scheme-aug-16.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/564183/child-maintenance-service-2012-scheme-aug-16.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on whether the request was made by the resident or the non-resident parent is not routinely collected and can only be provided at a disproportionate cost. Similarly, information on the number of children involved for parents using the Collect and Pay service specifically is not routinely collected and may only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Please note that a case may have more than one child.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/12/2016 11:13:07 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

648901

registered interest
date	30/11/2016
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 reasons are for the difference in charges incurred by a resident parent and a non-resident parent for using the Child Maintenance Service's collect and pay scheme.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	55578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2016 answer text <p>The ongoing charges ensure that both parents make a financial contribution towards the cost of using the Collect and Pay service, which remains heavily subsidized by the taxpayer. More importantly the four percent charge for the paying parent and the twenty percent charge for the non-resident parent provides an incentive to encourage them to pause and consider their options for a maintenance arrangement. For example, whether they need to use the Collect and Pay service or whether they could use Direct Pay, which has no ongoing charges.</p><p>Paying Parents can avoid charges if they pay their maintenance liability on time and in full on Direct Pay. If they are compliant they cannot be forced to use the Collect and Pay service and be liable to charges.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/12/2016 17:21:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows