Child Maintenance Service: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was contributed to the running of the Child Maintenance Service from (a) Government funding and (b) the (i) 4% contribution from parents receiving and (ii) 20% contribution from parents paying child maintenance through a collect-and-pay deduction from earnings order in each of the last five years.
Answered by Andrew Western
The summary table below shows the response to the PQ ask.
- In the first line, the amount funded by the government over the last 5 years, which equates to the amount of gross expenditure incurred in support of CMS Operations excluding Digital, Estates and other Central costs.
- Below that, the fee income collected from both Paying (20%) and Receiving (4%) Parents within Collect & Pay.
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£m | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 |
Net cost - Government funded | 146.2 | 115.1 | 120.7 | 104.1 | 115.9 |
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Paying Parent (PP) & Receiving Parent (RP) Fee Income - £m | 41.6 | 40.9 | 46.0 | 49.3 | 57.6 |
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PP & RP Fee Income detail: | £m | £m | £m | £m | £m |
Paying Parent Fee 20% | 34.8 | 34.2 | 38.5 | 41.3 | 48.2 |
Receiving Parent Fee 4% | 6.8 | 6.7 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 9.4 |
Total Income | 41.6 | 40.9 | 46.0 | 49.3 | 57.6 |
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Data is sourced from DWP internal management accounts used for internal financial management and reporting only.
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