Consultation outcome

Child maintenance: changes to powers of entry and information requests

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 14 January 2019
• Last updated: 26 March 2019 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

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Government response to 'Child maintenance: changes to powers of entry and information requests'

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Ymateb y Llywodraeth: Cynhaliaeth Plant: Ymgynghoriad Pwerau Mynediad a Gwybodaeth

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Detail of outcome

The government published a response to this consultation on 26 March 2019.

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Original consultation

Summary

This consultation seeks views on changes to the powers the Child Maintenance Scheme use to calculate child maintenance and enforce payments.

This consultation ran from
midday on 14 January 2019 to 2pm on 11 February 2019

Consultation description

This consultation is seeking views on changes to the powers the Child Maintenance Scheme (CMS) use to calculate child maintenance and enforce payments.

The proposals in this consultation seek to strengthen the current CMS, which was introduced in 2012.

The proposals include:

• an increase to the level of protection for the public when a CMS agent needs to use their powers of entry to premises
• expanding the list of organisations that must comply with requests for information to include pension providers and mortgage lenders

The proposal on powers of entry applies to England, Wales and Scotland only.

The proposal on the information strategy applies to England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Documents

Child maintenance: Powers of entry and information consultation

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Welsh: Cynhaliaeth Plant: Ymgynghoriad Pwerau mynediad a Gwybodaeth

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Published 14 January 2019
Last updated 26 March 2019 + show all updates

1. 26 March 2019

   Added consultation response in English and Welsh.

2. 14 January 2019

   First published.