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1148811

registered interest
date	14/10/2019
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, whether she plans to change the hierarchy of the distributions for payments made through the Child Maintenance Service so that unpaid child maintenance is better favoured for repayment; and if she will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	188
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/10/2019 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) aims to ensure liabilities are paid in full and on time. Where this does not happen the Service prioritises the collection of on-going maintenance before any arrears to avoid the build-up of maintenance arrears and ensure that today’s children will benefit. The CMS will pursue arrears alongside the collection of on-going liabilities wherever possible and will continue to pursue until all the debt has been paid. There are no plans to change the hierarchy of the distribution of the maintenance payments.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Eastleigh answering member printed Mims Davies question first answered 18/10/2019 11:41:58 answering member 4513 label Biography information for Mims Davies
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

1104879

registered interest
date	25/03/2019
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 she is taking to ensure that arrears are not discarded without the permission of the parent to whom the arrears are owed when cases are migrated from the Child Support Agency to the Child Maintenance Service.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	236438
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>Under the Compliance and Arrears strategy we are writing to clients with CSA debt above certain thresholds to ask if they want us to try to collect their arrears. These thresholds provide a reasonable cut off point to ensure that we do not pursue cases at disproportionate cost to the taxpayer. They are: over £500 and the case is less than 10 years old, and over £1,000 and the case 10 years old or over.</p><p> </p><p>If correspondence is returned as the client is not known at the address held, the Service will attempt to trace a current address in order to reissue the letter.</p><p> </p><p>If a client confirms they want the Service to attempt collection, the case is checked to ensure the debt balance is accurate before arrears are transferred from the CSA IT system to the CMS one.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 02/04/2019 12:58:35 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

994027

registered interest
date	24/10/2018
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, if she will publish the results of the arrears segmentation trial run by the Child Maintenance Group between April 2013 and April 2014; and what assessment she has made of how the results of that trial have informed her Department's approach to collecting child maintenance arrears.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	183359
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>Since 2010, The Child Maintenance Service has not undertaken an arrears segmentation trial.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 29/10/2018 15:33:00 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

993582

registered interest
date	23/10/2018
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, if she will publish the results of the reclassification of arrears trial run by the Child Maintenance Group; and what plans she has to change the processes used to collect Child Maintenance arrears as a result of that exercise.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	182774
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service has not undertaken any recent trials to reclassify arrears.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/10/2018 13:59:47 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

868547

registered interest
date	21/03/2018
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, for what reasons the Child Maintenance Service only reviews of a person's payments when their income changes by 25% or more; and what assessment has she made of the effect of that policy on people whose decrease in salary does not meet the 25% threshold.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	133767
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/03/2018 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service uses annually updated income information provided by HMRC to assess maintenance liabilities. The aim is that a liability, once created, stays in force for a year excepting significant income changes of 25% or more. This provides certainty and stability for both parents to allow them to budget effectively to the benefit of their children; and removes the need for paying parents to keep the Service updated of every change to their income. We continue to monitor the impact of the reformed child maintenance scheme.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 26/03/2018 16:41:13 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

747049

registered interest
date	30/06/2017
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, whether the Child Maintenance Service is entitled to full access to (a) assessments made and (b) data held by the Child Support Agency.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	2267
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/07/2017 answer text <p>I refer the hon. Member to the answers provided to his questions on 4 July 2017 (1932, and 1934).</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 05/07/2017 10:53:03 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

746713

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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 allow the Child Maintenance Service to use Child Support Agency fraud investigations to inform its work.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	1932
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>Where a Child Maintenance Service case has been referred to the Financial Investigations Unit we will use any previous Child Support Agency investigation findings as information to inform activity on the case. Evaluations will take place on a case by case basis to understand if historic findings are still relevant and fit with new legislation introduced by the Child Maintenance Service. There are currently no plans to change this process.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/07/2017 11:28:55 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

746714

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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 assessment he has made of the effect of the decision not to transfer Child Support Agency assessments to the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) on financial outcomes for CMS users.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	1933
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>My Department considered the effect of case closure on children and their parents through a public consultation: “Supporting separated families; securing children’s futures” in July 2012. Our response to the consultation was published in November 2013.</p><p> </p><p>We have monitored the effects of case closure and the new statutory child maintenance scheme and published a research report on case closure in December 2016. We will continue to monitor the effects as the remaining cases are closed.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/07/2017 14:23:38 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis

746715

registered interest
date	29/06/2017
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 plans he has to allow the Child Maintenance Service to use Child Support Agency assessments to inform its work.
tabling member constituency	Barnsley Central
tabling member printed	Dan Jarvis
uin	1934
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2017 answer text <p>Financial information used to calculate a liability within the child maintenance scheme comes directly from HMRC. This is faster and more accurate than relying on the Child Support Agency (CSA) assessment method of self reported income. Variation is available where parents believe there are additional factors that should be taken in to account. Where information held by the CSA is relevant to the likelihood of the liability being paid, for example if the case is subject to enforcement action, the Child Maintenance Service can take this into account when considering the arrangement by which future maintenance should be paid.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 04/07/2017 11:37:38 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4243 label Biography information for Dan Jarvis