Children: Maintenance
(asked on 3rd June 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the receipts to the public purse were from (a) the £20 fee charged for applications to the Child Maintenance Service (CMS), (b) the 20 per cent collection fee for paying parents using the CMS collect and pay service, (c) the four per cent collection fee for receiving parents using the CMS collect and pay service and (d) enforcement fees levied on paying parents in 2015-16.
Receipts to the public purse during 2015-16 were as follows:
Item | Amount received in 2015/16 |
Application fee | £1.7m |
Collection charge from paying parents | £5.6m |
Collection charge from receiving parents | £1.1m |
Enforcement charges | £0.1m |
These figures are draft and subject to audit.