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964109

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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 paying parents who had defaulted on payment and had outstanding arrears during the last month of their Child Support Agency case defaulted on payment within the first six months of being moved to the new Child Maintenance Service case.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	169398
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not collated centrally and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/09/2018 10:59:34 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

964110

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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, whether there is a limit on how many times a paying parent is given the opportunity to pay direct through the Child Maintenance Service to the parent with care after failing to pay and enforcement action having been taken.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	169399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>Paying parents deemed unlikely to pay must pay on time and in full by a non-enforced method for a period of at least six months via the Child Maintenance Service (the collect and pay service) before they can choose to revert to paying the receiving parent direct (Direct Pay). This provides a period of stability for the receiving parent, and requires the paying parent to demonstrate that they can be voluntarily compliant. There is no limit, however, to the number of times that a paying parent may be given the opportunity to pay direct to the receiving parent, as behaviour can change over time. A parent once deemed unlikely to pay, may now be willing to do so.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/09/2018 09:50:15 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

964111

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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 performance measures have been established for the Child Maintenance Service for the clearing of arrears in maintenance cases.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	169400
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>CMS publishes updates with regards to the value of unpaid maintenance in the Child Maintenance Service Statistics:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/717223/child-maintenance-service-august-2013-to-march-2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/717223/child-maintenance-service-august-2013-to-march-2018.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>In March 2018 there was a total of £197.8m unpaid Child Maintenance which should have been paid through the Collect and Pay service. This equated to 12.1% of the total liability (child maintenance) raised to date since the service began, £1,637.6m, and includes unpaid Child Maintenance under Direct Pay cases which have been transferred to Collect and Pay.</p><p> </p><p>Unpaid Maintenance will continue to accrue as it is impossible to achieve total compliance due to circumstances on individual cases and customer behaviours. CMS sets stretching performance measures to support restricting and reducing the growth of Unpaid Maintenance. The performance measures relate to expectations of compliance through proactive treatment of non-paying cases. The effect of these performance measures is to drive down the predicted growth so total Unpaid Maintenance does not exceed ~£300m reducing to 11.8% of the total liability raised.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/09/2018 11:13:25 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

964112

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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	Child Maintenance Service: Complaints
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many complaints have been made against the Child Maintenance Service since January 2017.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	169401
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The latest statistics on the number of complaints received each quarter by the Child maintenance Service are published in Table 17 of the Child Maintenance Service: Aug 2013 to Mar 2018 (experimental) statistics available online at:<br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-mar-2018-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-mar-2018-experimental</a><br>Information up to the end of June 2018 is due to be published in September 2018.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/09/2018 12:19:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

964114

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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 time was for arrears to be (a) assessed and (b) applied in relation to cases transferred from the Child Support Agency to the Child Maintenance Service.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	169402
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/09/2018 answer text <p>In the spirit of answering the question let me briefly describe the approach to assessing and applying arrears. On our old CSA systems we need to undertake action to ensure that we are assured the arrears amount is as accurate as possible before we trigger the movement of the amount to our new CMS IT systems. Once movement has been triggered our CMS caseworkers need to review the amount and apply it to the CMS case/scheduled for payment. Since April -18 the average time taken to apply arrears was 81.03 days, for work completed in August 18 the time taken has reduced to 62.15 days.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 10/09/2018 16:58:34 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

964247

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	PAYE
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether people paid monthly for whom April was treated as month one prior to the introduction of Real Time Information (RTI), but for whom May would then be treated as month one after the introduction of RTI were overtaxed as a result of missing out on one month of tax-free pay at the point at which RTI was introduced.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	169403
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/09/2018 answer text <p>The introduction of RTI did not result in changes to the tax calendar. The first payment made on or after the 6<sup>th</sup> April is classed as month 1 and this did not change post RTI. No individuals should have been overtaxed as a result of the implementation.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 11/09/2018 10:17:50 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

964658

registered interest
date	03/09/2018
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 take steps to ensure that the Child Maintenance Service has the necessary power to ensure that employers release payments from the earnings of paying parents in their employment with deduction from earning orders applied to their salary in a more timely manner.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	169404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/09/2018 answer text <p>The Child Maintenance Service encourages employers to release payments made via a deduction from earnings orders as soon as possible. Employers are required to pay deductions made for child maintenance by the 19<sup>th</sup> day of the month following that in which the deduction was made. There are no plans to reduce this period as this would place an unfair burden on employers.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 06/09/2018 10:07:03 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

947297

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS in England of special medicinal products over the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	167951
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2018 answer text <p>In the most recent 12 month period for which data is available (June 2017 to May 2018) the cost of National Health Service special medicinal products dispensed in the community in England was £70.5 million down from £135.5 million in 2010.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 05/09/2018 10:25:43 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford

947011

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has undertaken an impact assessment on the potential beneficial effects of regulating the dispensing of special medicinal products in England.
tabling member constituency	Central Ayrshire
tabling member printed	Dr Philippa Whitford
uin	167294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>We have made no such assessment. The supply of special medicinal products is regulated in the United Kingdom by the Human Medicines Regulations 2012. In addition, in England, NHS dispensing by pharmacies is regulated by the National Health Service (Pharmaceutical and Local Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2013.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 04/09/2018 16:00:47 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4385 label Biography information for Dr Philippa Whitford