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Written Question
Children: Maintenance
Thursday 26th March 2015

Asked by: Mike Wood (Labour - Batley and Spen)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the effect on child poverty of the introduction of child maintenance service charges.

Answered by Steve Webb

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne North, Catherine McKinnell, on 13 October 2014 to Question UIN 208928.

Written Question
Children: Maintenance
Thursday 26th March 2015

Asked by: Mike Wood (Labour - Batley and Spen)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment he has made of the gender impact of the introduction of child maintenance service charges.

Answered by Steve Webb

The assessment of the gender impact of fees and charges for the new Child Maintenance Service was published in the Equality Impact Assessment for the Child Support Fees Regulations 2013. This is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/220219/eia-child-support-fees.pdf.