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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

511478

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
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 his policy is on the consideration by the Child Maintenance Service of any evidence which would be admissible in a court or in a Tribunal as to the work status of a non-resident parent and place of work including posts made on social media.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
uin	33564
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>The Secretary of State will consider any evidence provided in relation to any element of a Maintenance Calculation when making a new liability decision, or reconsidering an existing one.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 19/04/2016 09:12:09 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach

511479

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
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 investigations have been undertaken by the Financial Investigation Unit of the Child Maintenance Group in each of the financial years since April 2012 to March 2013.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
uin	33563
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/04/2016 answer text <p>Child Maintenance Group’s Financial Investigation Unit (FIU) was established on 1 April 2014.</p><p> </p><p>For the financial year 2014 – 2015 the FIU conducted 3,749 investigations resulting in both civil and criminal investigations.</p><p> </p><p>For the financial year 2015 – 2016 the FIU conducted 3,186 investigations resulting in both civil and criminal investigations.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 20/04/2016 16:08:03 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach

511480

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
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 staff are employed in the Financial Investigation Unit of the Child Maintenance Group.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
uin	33562
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>I refer the Hon. Member to the answer I gave the Hon. Member for Brighton Pavilion on 29 February 2016 to Question UIN <a href="http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-02-19/27465/" target="_blank">27465</a>.</p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 19/04/2016 09:06:39 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach

511481

registered interest
date	12/04/2016
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 prosecutions have been undertaken by the Financial Investigation Unit within the Child Maintenance Group in each financial year since 2012; and how many civil actions have been taken by the Financial Investigation Unit in cases where there is not sufficient evidence to justify a criminal prosecution to recover funds owed to Parents with Care in that time.
tabling member constituency	Eddisbury
tabling member printed	Antoinette Sandbach
uin	33561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/04/2016 answer text <p>Child Maintenance Group’s Financial Investigation Unit (FIU) was established on 1 April 2014.</p><p> </p><p>During the year 2014/15, the FIU initiated 65 criminal prosecutions and also enabled civil enforcement action on 1,697 cases, collecting a total of £528,201.</p><p> </p><p>During the year 2015/16, the FIU initiated 70 criminal prosecutions and also enabled civil enforcement action on 1,424 cases, collecting a total of £581,217.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Witham answering member printed Priti Patel question first answered 19/04/2016 09:09:33 answering member 4066 label Biography information for Priti Patel
tabling member	4506 label Biography information for Antoinette Sandbach