Child Maintenance Service: Fees and Charges

(asked on 20th January 2021) - View Source

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 three years.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 25th January 2021

Income received from the Child Maintenance Service £20 Application fee for the last 3 years is as follows:

Applications Fee

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

£m

£m

£m

1.510

0.972

0.749

(Application fees reduced due to the waiver introduced in cases of Domestic Abuse)

Income received through collection charges for the last 3 years are below:

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

£m

£m

£m

PP Collection Charge

20%

16.878

27.905

34.771

RP Collection Charge

4%

3.241

5.430

6.767

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