Child maintenance: changes to powers of entry and information requests
This consultation seeks views on changes to the powers the Child Maintenance Scheme use to calculate child maintenance and enforce payments.
Opened
14 Jan 2019
Closed
11 Feb 2019
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Linked documents
- Open Consultation Child maintenance: Powers of entry and information consultation
- Open Consultation Welsh: Cynhaliaeth Plant: Ymgynghoriad Pwerau mynediad a Gwybodaeth
- Government Response Government response to 'Child maintenance: changes to powers of entry and information requests'
- Government Response Ymateb y Llywodraeth: Cynhaliaeth Plant: Ymgynghoriad Pwerau Mynediad a Gwybodaeth
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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.