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Income, including income from assets as well as earned income, needs to be declared to the UK tax authorities and subject to UK tax in order to be included in the maintenance calculation.<\/p>
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The Government is now considering next steps on the child maintenance service.<\/p>
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A principle of child maintenance is to increase levels of cooperation between separated parents and encourage parents to meet their responsibilities to provide their children with financial support. Where a family-based child maintenance arrangement is not suitable the Child Maintenance Service offers a statutory scheme for those parents who need it.<\/p>
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The Government is dedicated to ensuring parents meet their obligations to children and the Child Maintenance Service will do everything within its powers to make sure parents comply. Where parents fail to pay their child maintenance, the Service will not hesitate to use its enforcement powers, including deductions from earnings orders, removal of driving licences, disqualification from holding a passport, and committal to prison. The Service is committed to using these powers fairly and in the best interests of children and separated families.<\/p>
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Statistics on child maintenance arrangements and collections are part of the CMS quarterly statistics published on gov.uk in tables 4, 5 and 6 of the National Tables. The below information is from the latest publication for data up to March 2024.<\/p>
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o £224.9 million was paid<\/p>
o £91.9 million was unpaid<\/p>
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The data provided within table 6 of the Child Maintenance Service national tables<\/a> is based upon transactional financial data. CMS do not capture geographical data aligned to these transactions and as such it is not possible to apportion this information to geographical regions.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to table 6 of his Department\u2019s publication entitled Child Maintenance Service statistics: data to December 2023, published on 26 March 2024, how much child maintenance had not been paid and needed to be collected through Collect and Pay in (a) each nation, (b) each region and (c) Newcastle Central constituency as of 31 December 2023.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1718000/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Child Maintenance Service (CMS) takes the issue of domestic abuse extremely seriously and recognises that domestic abuse often continues and can worsen after separation, which can have detrimental impacts on the welfare of children. CMS therefore continues to evolve and make positive changes to the way we deliver our service and to support our case workers.<\/p> We have measures in place to ensure victims and survivors of domestic abuse can access and use our services safely.<\/p> Of 29,000 new applications to the CMS in the quarter ending December 2023, 56% of applications were exempt from the application fee, largely on the grounds of domestic abuse.<\/p> The Department publishes quarterly statistics for the CMS. Latest statistics are available up to December 2023<\/a>. Table 2 of the of the National tables<\/a> provides the volume of applications and volume of those with an exemption due to domestic abuse for the period 2021-2023.<\/p> <\/p>