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747511

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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 criteria his Department uses for determining the likelihood that child maintenance arrears will be collected.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	2605
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p>The department publishes an annual estimate of child maintenance arrears in the Client Funds Account that sets out the three categories of collectability.</p><p> </p><p><strong>1. Likely to be collected:</strong> Debt which meets criteria indicating that the Department has a good chance of collecting it. The criteria are:</p><ul><li>At least one payment made against the outstanding arrears in the six months prior to the reporting date.</li><li>At least one payment made in excess of the scheduled amount</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>2. Potentially collectable:</strong> Debt which meets criteria indicating that the Department has a reasonable chance of collecting it. The criteria are:</p><ul><li>The existence of a payment schedule at any point during the six months prior to the reporting date, even though no payments were received in the period.</li><li>For recent arrears, i.e. aged three months or less, the receipt of at least one payment against those arrears after the reporting date.</li><li>Debt on cases where enforcement action such as deduction directly from the non-resident parent’s bank account, or forcing the sale of their property is likely to be successful.</li></ul><p> </p><p><strong>3. Uncollectable:</strong> All remaining debt which does not meet the criteria for either of the other categories.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/07/2017 09:36:45 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

747512

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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 steps he is taking to collect child maintenance arrears, by category of collectability.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	2606
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2017 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">The department publishes an annual estimate of child maintenance arrears in the Client Funds Account that sets out the three categories of collectability.</del></p><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>1. Likely to be collected:</strong> Debt which meets criteria indicating that the Department has a good chance of collecting it. The criteria are:</del></p><ul><li><del class="ministerial">At least one payment made against the outstanding arrears in the six months prior to the reporting date.</del></li><li><del class="ministerial">At least one payment made in excess of the scheduled amount</del></li></ul><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>2. Potentially collectable:</strong> Debt which meets criteria indicating that the Department has a reasonable chance of collecting it. The criteria are:</del></p><ul><li><del class="ministerial">The existence of a payment schedule at any point during the six months prior to the reporting date, even though no payments were received in the period.</del></li><li><del class="ministerial">For recent arrears, i.e. aged three months or less, the receipt of at least one payment against those arrears after the reporting date.</del></li><li><del class="ministerial">Debt on cases where enforcement action such as deduction directly from the non-resident parent’s bank account, or forcing the sale of their property is likely to be successful.</del></li></ul><p> </p><p><del class="ministerial"><strong>3. Uncollectable:</strong> All remaining debt which does not meet the criteria for either of the other categories.</del></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong><ins class="ministerial"> <p><ins class="ministerial">The Department aims to ensure parents fulfil their obligation to make financial provision for their children and that maintenance is paid accurately and on time. Our priority, as outlined in our published Arrears and Compliance Strategy is to collect on-going maintenance and arrears in cases where there is still a child who stands to benefit.</ins></p><p> </p><p><ins class="ministerial">Child maintenance arrears are categorised in the Client Fund Account according to the likelihood of them being collected. We consider action on all cases that fall into the collectable and potentially collectable categories of debt. Where we are unable to take enforcement action, for example where we cannot trace the non-resident parent, cases will fall into the uncollectable category and will be reviewed as resources allow.</ins></p></ins></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 06/07/2017 09:26:53 question first ministerially corrected 06/07/2017 10:03:54 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage previous answer version 2227 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

747513

registered interest
date	03/07/2017
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, if he will implement the recommendations in the Work and Pensions Select Committee report, Child Maintenance Service, HC587, published on 2 May 2017; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	2574
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government welcomes the Work and Pensions Select Committee report and is carefully considering its recommendations. We will submit the Government response in due course.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/07/2017 15:40:12 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

682436

registered interest
date	31/01/2017
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, when he plans to publish the conclusions of the review carried out under section 141 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 on the effect of child maintenance charges; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	62417
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/02/2017 answer text <p>The Department published the research and statistics that formed the Review in 2016. The Review Report, which will draw together the findings from the published research and statistics, will be published in Spring this year.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 03/02/2017 11:01:55 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

678737

registered interest
date	25/01/2017
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 in maintenance arrears of non-resident parents is under the (a) Child Support Agency and (b) Child Maintenance Service.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	61576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2017 answer text <p>The total amount in maintenance arrears of non-resident parents under the Child Support Agency was £3,475.8m as of September 2016. This is published in table 15 of the CSA Quarterly Summary of Statistics for Great Britain, which can be found online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-september-2016" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-september-2016</a></p><p> </p><p>The total amount in maintenance arrears of non-resident parents on the Child Maintenance Service was £92.8m as of November 2016. This is published in Table 8 of the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) Experimental Statistics, which can be found online at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme-aug-2013-to-nov-2016-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme-aug-2013-to-nov-2016-experimental</a></p><p> </p><p>Additionally, up until the end of September 2016, Child Support Agency arrears totaling £352.7m had been transferred to the Child Maintenance Service system.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 30/01/2017 16:12:09 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

674378

registered interest
date	17/01/2017
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 criteria were used to determine the Child Maintenance Service's enforcement charges, including liability orders, lump sum reduction orders, regular deduction orders and deduction from earnings orders and requests.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	60231
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/01/2017 answer text <p>Enforcement charges are intended to encourage parents to comply with their commitments, as well as to help off-set the administrative cost of taking enforcement action. The enforcement charges are lower than the actual cost to the Department for taking the action. To charge the full cost could have an adverse effect and encourage non-compliance, as well as being potentially disproportionate to the size of the debt. The levels are designed to be proportionate to the type, and seriousness, of the order that is being pursued.</p><p> </p><p>Enforcement charges are only collected once the ongoing maintenance and any arrears due have, been paid.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/01/2017 10:42:56 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

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

648902

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 amount of child maintenance arrears is in (a) Scotland and (b) Motherwell and Wishaw constituency.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	55603
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2016 answer text <p>As at September 2016 the total value of Child Support Agency arrears on cases in Scotland stood at £257.46m, of this the total value of arrears on cases in the constituency of Motherwell and Wishaw stood at £4.59m.</p><p> </p><p>Information on geographical breakdowns on the Child Maintenance Service is not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The Department published its strategy for releasing experimental statistics on the 2012 scheme on 26 February 2014, and this was updated on 30 November 2016. This document provides information on future plans about measures to be published on the scheme.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/publication-strategy-for-the-2012-scheme-administered-by-the-child-maintenance-service" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/publication-strategy-for-the-2012-scheme-administered-by-the-child-maintenance-service</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p> </p><p>1) Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10,000.</p><p>2) Cases have been allocated to a parliamentary constituency by matching the residential postcode of the parent with care or non-resident parent for all cases administered on the CS2 and CSCS computer systems and cases managed off system to the Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 08/12/2016 12:11:27 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

648903

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 child maintenance service applications were made by (a) resident and (b) non-resident parents in (i) 2013-14, (ii) 2014-15, and (iii) 2015-16; and how many children were affected by such applications in each of those years.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	55587
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/12/2016 answer text <p>Information on the total number of Child Maintenance Service applications made until August 2016 can be found on page 4 of the Child Maintenance Service Experimental Statistics. The publication 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 an application was made by the resident or non-resident parents is not gathered routinely and can only be provided at a disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The total number of children benefitting from the child maintenance service can be found on page 7 of the publication.</p><p> </p><p>Note:</p><p> </p><p>Figures on the children benefiting are based on cases that have contributed towards current liability in the quarter. This will be different from all applications since cases not contributing are not included.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 05/12/2016 11:43:13 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows