The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission is responsible for the child maintenance system. I have asked the Child Maintenance Commissioner to write to the hon. Member with the information requested and I have seen the response.
Letter from Stephen Geraghty:
In reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, the Secretary of State promised a substantive reply from the Child Maintenance Commissioner.
You asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what surveillance powers under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission has applied; and whether it has applied for powers of entry. [314947]
The Commission is seeking authority under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 to undertake directed surveillance (the surveillance of individuals in a public place for the purposes of a specific investigation) and access to communications data relating to the “subscriber” of a communications provider. This could include personal information, such as bank account details, when investigating alleged criminal offences.
The Commission is not seeking powers of entry.
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