| Heading: |
Children: Maintenance |
| Question ID: |
1784522 |
| UIN: |
38246 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-13 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5157 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Susan Murray
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Susan Murray
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason the Child Maintenance Service charges parents to use the Collect and Pay system. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-21 |
| 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: |
Collection fees were introduced in 2014, with the objectives of subsidising the cost of the service; encouraging greater parental collaboration and more family-based arrangements; and encouraging compliance. |
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| Answering body ID: |
29 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Work and Pensions |
| Tweeted: |
true |