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- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Children: Support (4 Jun 2008)
James Plaskitt: Disqualification from driving for failure to pay statutory maintenance is an established part of the child maintenance enforcement process and there has been wide agreement that the surrender of a passport, or in some cases the travel element of an ID card, would be a useful tool to gain compliance from some non-resident parents. The Child Maintenance White Paper in December 2006 said that we...
- Orders of the Day: Clause 21 — Current account deduction orders (3 Jun 2008) has video
James Plaskitt: ...on a property. Obviously, it will not be realised until that property is disposed of at some point, and that will take time, but in the end the money is collected. As he and his colleagues have said, this is about getting a message out there. Non-resident parents need to understand that whatever wheeze they come up with, it will not work, and that the agency—now to be the...
- Public Bill Committee: Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill: Clause 25 (11 Oct 2007)
James Plaskitt: ...to the hon. Members for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey and for Forest of Dean for their contributions and their amendments which, I suspect, are inspired by their whole approach towards ID cards. In dealing with their points, I will give a short tutorial on how ID cards would work. I promise that it will be short, that it will answer the questions that have been raised and that...
- Public Bill Committee: Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill: Clause 25 (11 Oct 2007)
James Plaskitt: ...finish this explanation, because it is quite involved. If I go through it, I hope that the hon. Gentleman will understand why we are taking our position. It is not, therefore, necessary to remove ID cards from the definition of travel authorisation or to specify in legislation that only the travel authorisation function of the ID card should be covered by this clause. That is because the...
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Departmental Data (16 Jan 2006)
James Plaskitt: ...and relevant. It employs different methods according to the type of data it holds in relation to change of address and death details. Where people move house there is no obligation on them as individuals to notify my Department of such a change unless they are in receipt of benefit, where checks are made at the start of the claim and in certain benefits at specified points during the...
- Written Answers — Work and Pensions: Identity Cards (8 Dec 2005)
James Plaskitt: The Department for Work and Pensions has, in consultation with the Identity Cards programme, developed its current best estimate of the cost of using the ID Cards Scheme to support the services which it oversees and these costs have been incorporated into the business case. The Department is represented on the Ministerial Committee on Identity Cards which oversees the work on benefits...