| Heading: |
Child Maintenance Service: Standards |
| Question ID: |
1818697 |
| UIN: |
64471 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-02 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4673 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Jo Platt
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| Asking Member handle: |
JoPlattLeigh
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@JoPlattLeigh
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Government’s response to the consultation entitled Child Maintenance: Improving the Collection and Transfer of Payments, published on 23 June 2025, what steps she is taking to prev |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-10 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4979 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Western
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| Answering Member handle: |
andrewhwestern
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@andrewhwestern
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| Answer text: |
By replacing Direct Pay, we will tackle non-compliance, reduce opportunities for domestic abuse and lift children out of poverty. As part of this, we will require all those parents who are non-compliant to pay a 20% collection fee. We do not envisage ther... |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |