Child Maintenance Service

(asked on 23rd July 2019) - View Source
Questioner
Marion Fellows Portrait
Marion Fellows
(Scottish National Party - Motherwell and Wishaw)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much her Department has collected through the Child Maintenance Service's (a) four per cent and (b) twenty per cent collection fees under Collect and Pay in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Shadow Minister (Women)
This question was answered on 3rd September 2019

Income received through the Child Maintenance Service collection charges from 2014/15 through to 2017/18 is as follows:

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

£m

£m

£m

£m

PP Collection Charge

20%

1.649

5.573

10.494

16.878

RP Collection Charge

4%

0.325

1.086

2.026

3.241

The 2018/19 Child Maintenance Service Annual Report and Accounts have not been audited yet so we are unable to include figures from this period in PQ responses.

Income received is used to offset the administration cost of the Child Maintenance Group.

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