Child support
This page highlights some of the current parliamentary material available on financial support for children. This includes select committee reports, briefing papers on current legislation and other subjects produced by the parliamentary research services, and the latest Early Day Motions put down by MPs. For social support, see children's social services.
Standard Notes
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 27.01.2012 | Welfare Reform Bill 2010-12: amendments at the Lords Committee and Report stages |
| The Welfare Reform Bill has its Third Reading in the House of Lords on 31 January 2012. At Report Stage in the Lords, the government suffered defeats on amendments relating to under-occupation of social housing, the Employment and Support Allowance, the proposed benefit cap, and child support maintenance | |
| 22.08.2011 | Child Support Agency: key statistics |
| Some headline figures on the activities of the CSA, and sources of further statistics. |
Research Papers
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 08.06.2011 | Welfare Reform Bill: Committee Stage Report |
| This is an account of the House of Commons Committee Stage of the Welfare Reform Bill. It complements Research Papers 11/23 and 11/24, prepared for the Commons Second Reading debate. | |
| 04.03.2011 | Welfare Reform Bill: reform of disability benefits, Housing Benefit, and other measures |
| This paper has been prepared for the Second Reading debate in the House of Commons. For information on the provision in the Bill relating to the introduction of Universal Credit, please see the complementary Library Research Paper, 11/24. Besides Universal Credit, the Bill proposes a number of other significant welfare reforms, including replacement of the current Disability Living Allowance, restriction of Housing Benefit entitlement to social housing tenants whose accommodation is larger than they need, time-limiting the payment of contributory Employment and Support Allowance to twelve months, and capping the total amount of benefit that can be claimed. | |
| 13.03.2009 | Welfare Reform Bill: Committee Stage report |
| This is a report on the Committee Stage of the Welfare Reform Bill. It complements Research Papers 09/08 and 09/09 prepared for Commons Second Reading. | |
| 23.01.2009 | Welfare Reform Bill: disabled people, child maintenance and birth registration |
| This paper is one of two which examine the main proposals of the Welfare Reform Bill 2008-09. It deals with Parts 2-4 of the Bill, which include provisions for a new right for disabled people to control how public resources are used to meet their needs, new powers to enforce child maintenance, and for the joint registration of births. See also Research Paper 09/08. | |
| 02.11.2007 | Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill Committee Stage Report |
| Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill Committee Stage Report. (Bill 156 2006/07). House of Commons Library Research Paper 07/73. |
Select Committee Reports
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 13.10.2010 | The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission and the Child Support Agency's Operational Improvement... |
| Government response. Work and Pensions Select Committee; Department for Work and Pensions report [Commons] | |
| 10.02.2010 | Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission and the Child Support Agency's operational improvement plan.... |
| Work and Pensions Select Committee report [Commons] |
Early Day Motions
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 21.01.2011 | CHILD SUPPORT AGENCY |
| That this House recognises the good efforts of the Child Support Agency (CSA) to ensure parents receive the money to which they are entitled; further recognises that child maintenance ... | |
| 06.12.2007 | CUMBRIA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PARTNERSHIP |
| That this House acknowledges the Cumbria Domestic Violence Partnership as a beacon of good practice in tackling domestic violence; notes that domestic violence makes up 14 per cent. ... | |
| 05.12.2007 | TELEVISION LICENCE FEE AND DOMESTIC ABUSE REFUGES |
| That this House expresses concern that women who move into women's refuges to escape domestic abuse are responsible for purchasing a full-price television licence should they wish to ... | |
| 21.11.2007 | CHILD MAINTENANCE AND ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION |
| That this House supports the Government's aim to eradicate child poverty and believes that sufficient resources and investment must be available to the new Child Maintenance and Enforcement ... |
