The Child Maintenance Service includes two service types: \u2018Direct Pay\u2019 where payments are arranged and agreed between parents, and \u2018Collect & Pay\u2019 where payments are collected and paid to the receiving parent by Child Maintenance Service.<\/p>
The Department does not record data for direct pay compliance. If the paying parent does not<\/ins> <\/p> Data on compliance is recorded separately to data on employment status and cannot be easily linked. The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost<\/ins>. <\/p>don't<\/del> pay they can be moved onto the Collect and Pay at the discretion of the child maintenance service. The department does hold data on the compliance of Collect and Pay arrangements. Please refer to Table 7 of the Child Maintenance Service Statistics.<\/p> Although the department does hold some of the data to answer your question we estimate the cost of complying with your request would exceed the appropriate limit for central government, set by regulation at £600.This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 3 and half working days in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting it. We believe it would take longer than 3 and half days to match the compliance of a paying parent with their employment status. As a result, under section 12 of the Freedom of information Act the department is not therefore obliged to comply with your request and we will not be processing it further.<\/del><\/p>