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926632

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
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 charge is made to the service user for calling the Child Maintenance Service telephone line.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	154788
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>We have recently introduced 0800 telephone numbers for all our Child Maintenance Service lines, which are all free for customers to call from landline telephones. Call costs from mobile phone providers will vary depending on the customer’s provider and service plan, and in some cases, the time of day the call is made.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/06/2018 14:01:23 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

926633

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
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 recent assessment has been made of the adequacy of staffing levels in the Child Maintenance Service and their capacity to deal with the volume of their work.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	154789
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>The numbers of people working within the Child Maintenance Service is reviewed regularly to ensure we have sufficient resources to answer customer calls and progress cases. So far in 2018, we have recruited 210 people into the Child Maintenance Service, with these people joining us between February 2018 and June 2018, and we are currently undertaking recruitment for a further 300 people to join the Child Maintenance Service during July and August. We will continue to review the volumes of work against our forecasting model to ensure that we adjust staffing levels as required.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/06/2018 16:40:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

926635

registered interest
date	18/06/2018
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 have been employed in Child Maintenance Service call centres in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Dwyfor Meirionnydd
tabling member printed	Liz Saville Roberts
uin	154791
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/06/2018 answer text <p>All the people employed by the Child Maintenance Service are responsible for answering customer calls. The numbers of people who have been employed are as follows:</p><p> </p><ul><li>March 2016 – 4,600</li><li>March 2017 – 4,555</li><li>March 2018 – 4,665</li></ul> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/06/2018 14:01:21 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4521 label Biography information for Liz Saville Roberts

921827

registered interest
date	11/06/2018
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they will publish their response to the recent consultation on the new compliance and arrears strategy for child maintenance; whether they will bring forward regulations aimed at improving how the Child Maintenance Service calculates maintenance for paying parents with complex income; and whether they still plan to write off arrears accrued under the Child Support Agency which are owed to receiving parents.
tabling member printed	Lord Stevenson of Balmacara
uin	HL8521
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2018 answer text <p>We expect to publish the Government’s response within the next few weeks. Regulations to support the strategy outlined in the response will be laid as early as is practicable.</p> answering member printed Baroness Buscombe question first answered 25/06/2018 11:22:54 answering member 3349 label Biography information for Baroness Buscombe
tabling member	4175 label Biography information for Lord Stevenson of Balmacara

917071

registered interest
date	04/06/2018
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 estimate she has made of the number of deduction notices issued by the Child Maintenance Service as a result of a mistaken identity in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	149601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/06/2018 answer text <p>We do not keep statistics or records of people who we have contacted where the identity has been incorrectly identified. In order to confirm accurate details for a customer, the Child Maintenance Service has a number of trace tools, including interfaces with other Government Departments and Credit Reference Agency, which we utilise to facilitate this. Where we are unable to identify a customer, we would not progress the case and therefore would not issue a deduction order on the case.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 08/06/2018 09:35:52 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

915212

registered interest
date	01/06/2018
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 people have been contacted by the Child Maintenance Service in error in the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Hemsworth
tabling member printed	Jon Trickett
uin	148613
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/06/2018 answer text <p>We do not keep statistics or records of people who we have contacted in error. In order to confirm the contact details for a customer the Child Maintenance Service has a number of trace tools, including interfaces with other Government Departments and Credit Reference Agency, which we utilise to facilitate this.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 07/06/2018 10:13:11 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	410 label Biography information for Jon Trickett

909303

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
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 average proportion of a person's net income is paid out in child maintenance by people in (a) employment and (b) self-employment.
tabling member constituency	Great Grimsby
tabling member printed	Melanie Onn
uin	146925
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>We have made no estimate of the average proportion of net income paid out in Child Maintenance. Child Maintenance is calculated using a set percentage of a Paying Parent’s gross income. The percentages used are the same for those employed or self-employed.</p><p> </p><p>The calculation process and rates are set out in:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-we-work-out-child-maintenance" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-we-work-out-child-maintenance</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 04/06/2018 14:56:45 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4464 label Biography information for Melanie Onn

909337

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
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 estimate she has made of the number of civil enforcement actions for the non payment of child maintenance liability orders in each of the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Hendon
tabling member printed	Dr Matthew Offord
uin	146825
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2018 answer text <p>The number of civil enforcement actions for non payment of a child maintenance liability are published quarterly in Table 11 of the Child Maintenance Service experimental statistics data tables, which can be found here:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/684262/tables-child-maintenance-service-august-2013-to-december-2017.ods" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/684262/tables-child-maintenance-service-august-2013-to-december-2017.ods</a></p><p> </p><p>A Paying Parent can be taken to court over unpaid child maintenance. The courts can grant liability orders which allow the parent to be referred to Enforcement Agents who could come and take away property to be sold to pay the unpaid maintenance and costs. The courts could also apply a charging order to force the parent to sell property (Orders for Sale) and use the money to pay off the unpaid maintenance. If these methods fail the Child Maintenance Service can apply for the courts to disqualify the parent from driving or send them to prison.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 29/05/2018 10:50:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4006 label Biography information for Dr Matthew Offord

908454

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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	What plans the Government has to increase compliance with child maintenance responsibilities.
tabling member constituency	Mid Worcestershire
tabling member printed	Nigel Huddleston
uin	905454
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service has wide ranging powers to enforce the collection of both ongoing child maintenance liability and arrears.</p><p> </p><p>We publish regular information about this activity which shows for example, increasing use of the Financial Investigation Unit with over 1000 more complex earner investigations referred this year compared with last.</p><p> </p><p>We recently consulted on a new Compliance and Arrears Strategy with the aim of increasing these powers. The Government’s response to this consultation will be published later this summer.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/05/2018 16:27:59 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4407 label Biography information for Nigel Huddleston

903932

registered interest
date	14/05/2018
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 estimate he has made of the number of people that used self-employed status to avoid paying child maintenance payments in 2017.
tabling member constituency	South Antrim
tabling member printed	Paul Girvan
uin	143850
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 answer text <p>The Department has not made an estimate of the volume of declaring self-employment as a means of avoiding child maintenance payments. Income information for paying parents is obtained directly from HMRC. This figure will include earnings from self-employment. Where there is reason to suspect a declared income or that a parent is using self–employment status as a means to avoid or reduce their maintenance liability, the case will be referred to the Financial Investigations Unit. The volume of cases which are subject to a complex earners investigation are published in Table 12 of Child Maintenance Service Statistics available on line at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-dec-2017-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-dec-2017-experimental</a>. Investigations into self-employed paying parents are a subgroup of the complex earners investigations.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 21/05/2018 13:25:27 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4633 label Biography information for Paul Girvan