Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of parents who are paying child maintenance and the 20 per cent fee through the Child Maintenance Service collect and pay service are (a) men and (b) women.

All Paying Parents with a Collect and Pay arrangement pay the 20 percent fee and the number of such parents at the end of March 2021, broken down by gender are shown in the table below.

Table 1: The number of Paying Parents with a Collect and Pay arrangement by gender, March 2021, Great Britain.

Source: The Child Maintenance Service administrative system

Notes:

1. All figures are rounded to the nearest 10. The total may not sum due to rounding.
2. These figures include cases with CMS arrears and no ongoing monthly liability.
3. The figures supplied are derived from the datasets used to produce the CMS Official Statistics.