Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much revenue her Department has collected through the Child Maintenance Service's £20 application fee in each of the last five years.

Income received from the Child Maintenance Service £20 Application fee from 2014/15 through to 2017/18 is as follows:

2014/15 £0.828m

2015/16 £1.692m

2016/17 £1.799m

2017/18 £1.520m

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.