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995511

registered interest
date	26/10/2018
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, how much child maintenance has not been paid by non-resident parents to parents with care to date (a) in total and (b) under the Collect and Pay scheme in each year since 2012 where figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	184399
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2018 answer text <p>The latest statistics on unpaid maintenance are published in Table 9 of the Child Maintenance Service: August 2013 to June 2018 (experimental) statistics available online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-august-2013-to-june-2018-experimental" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-august-2013-to-june-2018-experimental</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The figures include all unpaid maintenance from Direct Pay arrangements that have broken down and subsequently transferred onto the Collect &amp; Pay Service. Data on payments made directly between parents on Direct Pay are not available.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 31/10/2018 10:13:13 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

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

993556

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, how much revenue has been raised from the £20 fee on applications to the Child Maintenance Service to date.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	182810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>Applications fees data is not explicitly available but forms part of the broader Receipts and Payments Statement information within the published Client Fund Accounts these can be accessed at the following links:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667954/hc610-client-funds-account-2016-17-2012-cms.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667954/hc610-client-funds-account-2016-17-2012-cms.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/578769/hc856-client-funds-account-2015-16-2012-cms.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/578769/hc856-client-funds-account-2015-16-2012-cms.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>Information on fees for 2017/18 financial year will not be available until audit of the 2017/18 Client Funds Account has been completed, anticipated by January 2019.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/10/2018 13:46:39 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

993557

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 automatically include unearned income drawn from HMRC in all child maintenance calculations.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	182811
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/10/2018 answer text <p>We are working with HMRC to increase awareness among clients as to what unearned income is and the impact it can have on child maintenance liabilities. We believe that this, along with enhancing case worker training in this area, will help identify and factor unearned income into the calculation at an earlier point in case.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 26/10/2018 09:36:12 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows

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

992677

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer of 1 May 2018 to Questions 137165 and 137166 on Children: Maintenance, if he will publish the figures for (a) Dunfermline and West Fife, (b) Glenrothes and (c) North East Fife constituency.
tabling member constituency	Dunfermline and West Fife
tabling member printed	Douglas Chapman
uin	182229
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/10/2018 answer text <p>The number of paying parents with unpaid maintenance, and the corresponding amount of money outstanding of such unpaid maintenance as of June 2018 for the constituencies of Dunfermline and West Fife, Glenrothes, and North East Fife are outlined in the table below.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p>Number of paying parents with unpaid maintenance</p></td><td><p>Amount of unpaid maintenance (£)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dunfermline and West Fife</p></td><td><p>210</p></td><td><p>290,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Glenrothes</p></td><td><p>260</p></td><td><p>410,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>North East Fife</p></td><td><p>130</p></td><td><p>160,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Paying parents are rounded to the nearest 10, unpaid maintenance is rounded to the nearest £10,000.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 30/10/2018 12:02:29 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4402 label Biography information for Douglas Chapman

992839

registered interest
date	22/10/2018
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, how much child maintenance debt was collected in each of the last three years (a) as a total amount in pounds and (b) as a proportion of the total amount owed.
tabling member constituency	Dulwich and West Norwood
tabling member printed	Helen Hayes
uin	182299
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>Information relating to your request can be derived from Table 9 in the Child Maintenance Service Statistics which is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/742803/tables-child-maintenance-service-august-2013-to-june-2018.ods" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/742803/tables-child-maintenance-service-august-2013-to-june-2018.ods</a></p><p> </p><p>It should be noted that the data does not distinguish between payments made in relation to accrued debt and those made in relation to ongoing maintenance. Further guidance for users of the Child Maintenance Service Statistics is available at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-maintenance-service-2012-scheme-experimental-statistics-background-information-and-methodology" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-maintenance-service-2012-scheme-experimental-statistics-background-information-and-methodology</a></p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 25/10/2018 15:16:05 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4510 label Biography information for Helen Hayes

991142

registered interest
date	19/10/2018
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 he will make an assessment of the potential merits of only using the most recent income data in order to calculate child maintenance payments for a non-resident parent.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	181589
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>Basing the assessment on HMRC data has enabled the Child Maintenance Service to significantly speed up the set-up of new cases which can be key to securing regular payments. The previous approach of obtaining the information from parents often led to considerable delays and significant arrears building up on cases right from the start.</p><p> </p><p>Child maintenance is reviewed annually using HMRC data to make sure it is in line with a parent’s circumstances. Between those reviews, parents are required to report any changes in their income that are greater than 25 percent – such changes will trigger a reassessment of the maintenance due.</p><p> </p><p>Income information is provided by HMRC under a data sharing agreement for the most recent complete tax year they hold within the last six years. HMRC determines a tax year as complete when they have accounted for all Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and Self Assessment records.</p><p> </p><p>Each year HMRC receive and process income figures from 33 million Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and 3.3 million Self-Assessment customers. HMRC undertakes compliance activity to ensure that the data reported to them is accurate.</p><p> </p><p>My Department has recently laid regulations which would allow a notional income to be assessed from certain assets. This will ensure that parents who are able to organise their financial affairs to minimise their taxable income, still have an obligation to pay maintenance for their children at a level which reflects their financial circumstances.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 181325 181590 question first answered 25/10/2018 16:05:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

990385

registered interest
date	18/10/2018
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, how many non-resident parents at the time of their annual review had their child maintenance calculated from income that was earned more than two years from the date of that assessment.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	181324
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>We do not currently report on the tax years used in the calculation of Annual Reviews. In the spirit of answering the question asked, at the Initial Calculation stage we use income from the following: 82% from HMRC, 9% from Benefit systems and the remaining 9% from Paying Parents or Employers. Recent sampling of the HMRC supplied information shows 82% of Initial assessments use income data from the last two tax years (2017/18 &amp; 2016/17), 10% from previous years and 8% have no tax year provided and will not be used to calculate the assessment.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson question first answered 25/10/2018 16:10:42 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley

990386

registered interest
date	18/10/2018
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, what steps HMRC is taking to ensure that records on the income of Child Maintenance Service non-resident parents are kept up to date.
tabling member constituency	Lanark and Hamilton East
tabling member printed	Angela Crawley
uin	181325
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/10/2018 answer text <p>Basing the assessment on HMRC data has enabled the Child Maintenance Service to significantly speed up the set-up of new cases which can be key to securing regular payments. The previous approach of obtaining the information from parents often led to considerable delays and significant arrears building up on cases right from the start.</p><p> </p><p>Child maintenance is reviewed annually using HMRC data to make sure it is in line with a parent’s circumstances. Between those reviews, parents are required to report any changes in their income that are greater than 25 percent – such changes will trigger a reassessment of the maintenance due.</p><p> </p><p>Income information is provided by HMRC under a data sharing agreement for the most recent complete tax year they hold within the last six years. HMRC determines a tax year as complete when they have accounted for all Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and Self Assessment records.</p><p> </p><p>Each year HMRC receive and process income figures from 33 million Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and 3.3 million Self-Assessment customers. HMRC undertakes compliance activity to ensure that the data reported to them is accurate.</p><p> </p><p>My Department has recently laid regulations which would allow a notional income to be assessed from certain assets. This will ensure that parents who are able to organise their financial affairs to minimise their taxable income, still have an obligation to pay maintenance for their children at a level which reflects their financial circumstances.</p> answering member constituency North Swindon answering member printed Justin Tomlinson grouped question UIN 181589 181590 question first answered 25/10/2018 16:05:26 answering member 4105 label Biography information for Justin Tomlinson
tabling member	4469 label Biography information for Angela Crawley