Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many claimants of child maintenance have been exempted from paying the application fee for Collect-and-Pay as a result of domestic abuse.
Exemption from paying the application fee due to domestic abuse applies to the statutory scheme as a whole, and is applied to applications whether the parent requests Direct Pay or Collect & Pay.
The latest statistics on Application Fee Exemptions are published in Table 2 of the Child Maintenance Service: August 2013 to March 2018 (experimental) publication available online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-aug-2013-to-mar-2018-experimental