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Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service

Status: Closed Opened: 18 May 2022 Closed: 31 Oct 2023 16 recommendations 15 conclusions 1 report

Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Service is the third and final part of the Committee’s wider inquiry into children in poverty, following on from the Measurement and targets , and no recourse to public funds . The Committee looked into: How many children in the UK live in separated families? What proportion of these children …

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Sixth Report - Children in poverty: Child Maintenance Servi… HC 272 27 Apr 2023 31 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

1 item
12 Recommendation Sixth Report - Children in poverty: Chi… Not Addressed

Set out intended timetable for commencing provisions of Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill.

We strongly support the aims of the Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill, which would allow domestic abuse cases to skip Direct Pay and move straight to Collect and Pay. We welcome the Government’s support for that legislation. In response to this Report, the Government should set out the intended …

Government response. The government details various ongoing actions and reviews within the CMS to support victims of domestic abuse but does not provide a specific timetable for commencing the provisions of the Child Support Collection (Domestic Abuse) Bill as requested.
Department for Work and Pensions

Oral evidence sessions

4 sessions
Date Witnesses
18 Jan 2023 Arlene Sugden · Department for Work and Pensions, Hilda Massey · Department for Work and Pensions, Viscount Younger of Leckie · Department for Work and Pensions View ↗
2 Nov 2022 Joshua Reddaway · National Audit Office View ↗
19 Oct 2022 Dr Christine Davies · Royal Holloway University of London, Dr Jon Symonds · University of Bristol, Dr Mia Hakovirta · Turku University, Finland, Professor Esther Dermott · University of Bristol View ↗
7 Sep 2022 Caitlin Logan · One Parent Families Scotland, Cristina Odone · Centre for Social Justice, Meghan Meek-O’Connor · Save the Children, Michael Lewkowicz · Families Need Fathers, Victoria Benson · Gingerbread View ↗

Correspondence

4 letters
DateDirectionTitle
6 Sep 2023 — Correspondence with the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State relating to Chil…
13 Jul 2023 — Correspondence with Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State relating to Children…
23 Feb 2023 — Correspondence with the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State relating to Chil…
1 Feb 2023 — Correspondence with the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State about the Childr…