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177614

registered interest
date	03/02/2015
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much his Department estimates it will raise in child maintenance service charges in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	223209
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/02/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Paragraphs 101 to 108 of the CSA Case Closure, Introducing CMS Fees, Supporting Family Based Arrangements Impact Assessment give an estimate of the income expected to be raised through the introduction of fees. This Impact Assessment, published on 22 November 2013, is available at</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/259694/cm-case-closure-and-charges-regs-ia-final.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/259694/cm-case-closure-and-charges-regs-ia-final.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>No separate estimate for has been made for Scotland, England, Wales or Northern Ireland.</p><p> </p><p>Parents can avoid all fees and charges by making a family-based child maintenance arrangement, which they can be helped to achieve by contacting Child Maintenance Options. Where this is not possible, on-going collection and enforcement charges can be avoided by using ‘Direct Pay’.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 09/02/2015 14:41:30 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

170549

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many liability orders for oustanding child maintenance arrears have been issued to non-resident parents in each of the last four years for which figures are available in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, (d) England, (e) Northern Ireland, (f) each local authority area and (g) each Parliamentary constituency.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	218761
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>Figures on the number of liability orders granted in relation to cases administered by the Child Support Agency is published in table 17 (page 44) of the latest <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics-september-2014" target="_blank">Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics</a>, which contains data up to September 2014. Information on liability orders broken down by country is not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>We are not yet in a position to release full statistics on the 2012 Scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, but when system data becomes available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 18/12/2014 11:52:45 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

170550

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many liability orders that have been issued for outstanding child maintenance arrears have led to (a) prosecutions, (b) disclosed information about the paying parent to credit reference agencies, (c) new enforcement charges being levied to non-residential parents in (i) the UK, (ii) Scotland, (iii) Wales, (iv) England, (v) Northern Ireland, (vi) each local authority area and (vii) each parliamentary constituency in each of the last four years for which records are available.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	218752
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p>(a) Information on the number of liability orders that have led to a prosecution is not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>Figures on the number of prosecutions is published in table 17 (page 44) of the latest <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics-september-2014" target="_blank">Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics</a>, which contains data up to September 2014.</p><p> </p><p>(b) Regulations to enable these new powers are due to be laid in Parliament in March 2015 with the intention being that they come into force by the end of the same month.</p><p> </p><p>(c) Enforcement charges only relate to the 2012 Scheme, which opened to all applicants on 30 November 2013. We are not yet in a position to release full statistics on the 2012 Scheme, but when system data becomes available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 18/12/2014 13:06:02 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

170551

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Child Support Agency has collected in current maintenance and arrears in each of the last four years for which figures are available; and what the total maintenance liabilities were in each such year.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	218751
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The table below shows yearly figures for liability accrued and collections towards maintenance and arrears by the Child Support Agency.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Rolling 12 Months:</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Liability Accrued (£m)<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Maintenance Collected (£m)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Of which, Contribution towards Arrears (£m)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>March 2011<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£768.9</p></td><td><p>£125.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>March 2012<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>£790.8</p></td><td><p>£118.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>March 2013</strong></p></td><td><p>£915.7</p></td><td><p>£828.4</p></td><td><p>£167.4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>March 2014</strong></p></td><td><p>£942.4</p></td><td><p>£849.0</p></td><td><p>£155.8</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Annual liability is only available from March 2013 due to new methodology only being available from January 2012. Maintenance Collected and Contribution towards Arrears are based on old methodology for March 2011 and March 2012.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 18/12/2014 12:58:56 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

170555

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much was outstanding in child maintenance arrears in each (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority area in each of the last four years.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	218713
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>(a) The attached document (CM arrears by Parliamentary Constituency) provides a breakdown of outstanding child maintenance arrears on cases administered by the Child Support Agency (CSA) by parliamentary constituency, as at June 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Outstanding child maintenance arrears, on cases administered by the CSA, broken down by local authority is published in the six-monthly regional tables. The latest published regional figures contain data as at June 2014 which can be found at the following link:<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/347756/csa_qtr_summ_stats_regional_jun14.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/347756/csa_qtr_summ_stats_regional_jun14.xls</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 18/12/2014 13:31:08 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb attachment 1 file name CM arrears by Parliamentary Constituency.xls title CM arrears by Parliamentary Constituency
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

170556

registered interest
date	15/12/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what amount is outstanding in child maintenance arrears in (a) Airdrie and Shotts constituency and (b) Scotland.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	218688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The table below shows the outstanding maintenance arrears for Child Support Agency (CSA) cases as at June 2014:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Airdrie and Shotts</strong></p></td><td><p>£6,714,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td><td><p>£304,960,000</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>1. Figures rounded to nearest £1,000.</p><p>2. Outstanding Arrears figures are the gross arrears position at the end of each quarter sourced from the Agency’s internal MI and relate to outstanding Non-Resident Parent arrears which are then allocated to the Parliamentary Constituency of the Parent with Care. Due to the different sources, figures may differ slightly from CSA’s Annual Report and Accounts.</p><p>3. Local Authorities and Parliamentary constituencies are determined by the region/country specified on the National Statistics Postcode Directory. Due to slight differences between the areas specified for local authorities and parliamentary constituencies on CSA's management information, overall totals may differ. The sum of the total arrears for Scotland by Parliamentary Constituency differs from the sum by local authority by 0.01%.</p><p>4. We are not yet in a position to release full statistics on the 2012 Scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, but when system data becomes available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 18/12/2014 12:41:01 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

170021

registered interest
date	11/12/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in how many live Child Support Agency cases with maintenance arrears there is an arrears charging schedule in place; and in how many such cases arrears repayments are being made in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	218415
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>The table below shows the number of Child Support Agency cases with an arrears liability and the number of those cases paying towards arrears in the quarter ending September 2014:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p><strong>Number of Cases with an Arrears Liability</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Paying Towards Arrears</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>105,600</p></td><td><p>19,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>1,026,400</p></td><td><p>199,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>73,200</p></td><td><p>14,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Northern Ireland<sup>4</sup></p></td><td><p>2,700</p></td><td><p>600</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other<sup>5</sup></p></td><td><p>50,500</p></td><td><p>1,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Great Britain</p></td><td><p>1,258,400</p></td><td><p>234,600</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes</p><p>1. In January 2012 new methodology was introduced to provide a more accurate view of the number of cases contributing towards arrears. Previously, arrears collected figures included arrears of maintenance that have been linked to an arrears collection schedule. In the new methodology, payments above the current liability are counted as receipts towards arrears.</p><p>2. The latest <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics-september-2014" target="_blank">Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics</a> contains data up to September 2014. Table 10: Cases Contributing Towards Arrears, shows the number of cases with an arrears liability and also the number of cases paying towards arrears.</p><p>3. Figures rounded to the nearest 100 and may not sum due to rounding.</p><p>4. Northern Ireland cases include cases managed by the CSA in Great Britain where the Parent with Care lives in Northern Ireland. This does not include cases managed by the Northern Ireland Child Maintenance Enforcement Division (CMED).</p><p>5. Cases included in the ‘Other’ category are cases where either the Parent with Care has moved abroad, or where the area of the Parent with Care is Unknown.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 16/12/2014 11:53:24 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

65803

registered interest
date	03/07/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in respect of Child Support Agency child maintenance owed to parents with care, how many arrears-only cases there are (a) where money is flowing and (b) where no money is flowing.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	203881
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>At March 2014 there were 532,500 Child Support Agency cases which had arrears with no ongoing liability. Of those, there were 37,000 cases where money was flowing and 495,500 cases where no money was flowing.</p><p> </p><p>Note: This includes cases administered on the 1993 and 2003 Schemes only.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 08/07/2014 11:30:11 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

63987

registered interest
date	25/06/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Support Agency cases there are in each revised order of case closure; and when the estimated closure time is for each grouping.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	202303
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/07/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The table below shows an estimate of when the 800,000 Child Support Agency cases with an ongoing child maintenance liability will close.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Segment and Description</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Volume</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Start</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>End</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Segment 1 - No child maintenance is liable for payment</p></td><td><p>156,000</p></td><td><p>January 2015</p></td><td><p>February 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Segment 2 - Paying parent is currently not paying maintenance</p></td><td><p>89,000</p></td><td><p>August 2015</p></td><td><p>June 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Segment 3 - Cases that are currently being managed outside of the two legacy systems</p></td><td><p>46,000</p></td><td><p>November 2015</p></td><td><p>March 2016</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Segment 4 - Remaining legacy cases with no enforcement action</p></td><td><p>380,000</p></td><td><p>November 2015</p></td><td><p>September 2017</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Segment 5 - Enforcement action is under way</p></td><td><p>129,000</p></td><td><p>July 2017</p></td><td><p>May 2018</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 01/07/2014 14:31:39 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

63442

registered interest
date	23/06/2014
answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
answering dept id	29
answering dept short name	Work and Pensions
answering dept sort name	Work and Pensions
hansard heading	Children: Maintenance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when he expects his Department to have closed all outstanding Child Support Agency cases.
tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
uin	201808
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The process of closing Child Support Agency cases begins in 2014 and the current planning assumption is that it will take around three years to complete.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 26/06/2014 15:15:04 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash