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228664

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
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 many Child Support Agency (CSA) cases have been closed as part of the phased three-year CSA case closure programme.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	228463
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>Up to and including 28<sup>th</sup> February 2015, 5,100 cases have been closed as part of the phased three-year CSA case closure programme.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>Figure rounded to the nearest 100.</p><p>The figure is made up from cases proactively selected for case closure, and those where an application has been made to the 2012 scheme and a case exists on the 93/03 scheme which is then reactively closed down.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/03/2015 09:11:15 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

228665

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
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 many Child Support Agency cases are being dealt with by the legal enforcement section of that Agency.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	228464
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>As of the end of November 2014 17,100 cases were being dealt with by the legal enforcement section of the Child Support Agency.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>Figure rounded to the nearest 100.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/03/2015 09:14:23 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

228666

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
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 many calls the Child Maintenance Options Service has received in each month from September 2014 to date.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	228465
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The number of inbound calls received by the Child Maintenance Options Service from September 2014 to the end of February 2015 is shown in the table below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Number of calls received by the Child Maintenance Options Service</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sep-14</p></td><td><p>31,390</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Oct-14</p></td><td><p>30,460</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Nov-14</p></td><td><p>27,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Dec-14</p></td><td><p>20,970</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Jan-15</p></td><td><p>33,010</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Feb-15</p></td><td><p>31,020</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>- Data Sourced from CMO Monthly MI Service Pack</p><p>- Data rounded to nearest 10</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/03/2015 09:19:54 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

228668

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
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 many six months' notice warning letters of case closure have been sent to Child Support Agency customers in each month since December 2014.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	228425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p> </p><p>The table below shows the number of six months’ notice warning letters of case closure, that have been issued since December 2014:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Notifications Issued in Month</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2015</p></td><td><p>59,800</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2015</p></td><td><p>50,600</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>Figure rounded to the nearest 100.</p><p>The figures are made up from cases proactively selected for case closure, and those where an application has been made to the 2012 scheme and a case exists on the 93/03 scheme which is then reactively closed down.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/03/2015 09:06:11 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

228670

registered interest
date	19/03/2015
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 many reminder letters giving one month's warning of case closure have been sent to Child Support Agency customers in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	228462
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The table below shows the number of reminder letters that have been issued giving one months warning of case closure. The case closure process started on the 30 June 2014, with reminder letters being issued from December 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Month</p></td><td><p>Notifications Issued in Month</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>December 2014</p></td><td><p>5,300</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>January 2015</p></td><td><p>13,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>February 2015</p></td><td><p>37,500</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>Figure rounded to the nearest 100.</p><p>The figures are made up from cases proactively selected for case closure, and those where an application has been made to the 2012 scheme and a case exists on the 93/03 scheme which is then reactively closed down.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/03/2015 09:00:13 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

225940

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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 child maintenance arrears (a) is designated technically uncollectable and (b) his Department has already written-off as uncollectable since the write-off powers were introduced in November 2012; and what the reasons are for any difference between the two such figures.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	226650
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>(a) Information on uncollectable arrears can be found on page 41 of the latest Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics, available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/404296/csa-qtr-summ-stats-dec-2014.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/404296/csa-qtr-summ-stats-dec-2014.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>(b) Under the Write Off and Part Payment Powers introduced on 10 December 2012 the Department has written off £1.2 million in the financial year 2012/13 and £16.0 million in the financial year 2013/14 giving a total written off of £17.2 million.</p><p> </p><p>The two figures are not directly comparable. The data is based on different sources, uncollectable arrears is based on the entire caseload whereas the amount written off relates to specific cases where agreement to write off has been reached.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 12/03/2015 14:08:17 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

225268

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of Child Support Agency arrears owing in cases with a current liability that will be (a) written off in full, (b) written off in part, (c) re-valued to take account of a previous interim maintenance assessment and (d) transferred to the Child Maintenance Service for collection as a result of the 2015 to 2018 phased closure of such cases.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	226432
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p>We cannot predict how many parents with care will agree to have their child maintenance arrears written off during the case closure process; however all will be given the opportunity to do so. No estimates have been published for the amount of Child Support Agency arrears that will be (a) written off in full, (b) written off in part, (c) re-valued to take account of a previous interim maintenance assessment, or (d) transferred to the Child Maintenance Service for collection.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 226386 question first answered 10/03/2015 12:21:53 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

225269

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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, whether his Department has undertaken a review of the results of the controlled approach to implementation of the power contained in the Child Support Management of Payments and Arrears (Amendment) Regulations 2012 allowing part payment of child maintenance arrears in full and final satisfaction of a debt where both parents consent; and if he will assess the merits of his Department adopting a pro-active rather than reactive approach to use of that power in suitable cases.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	226444
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The Department continues to consider the merits of adopting a proactive approach to part payment of child maintenance arrears. However the immediate priority is to ensure the smooth running of the 2012 child maintenance scheme so that children benefit from regular ongoing maintenance payments and we will continue to do all we can to collect historic Child Support Agency arrears.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 09/03/2015 16:24:45 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

225273

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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, what estimate his Department has made of the likely proportion of parents with care with child maintenance arrears whose CSA cases will be closed as part of the scheduled case closure process who will opt to have their child maintenance arrears (a) written off as part of the shutdown and (b) transferred to the child maintenance service for future collection.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	226386
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>We cannot predict how many parents with care will agree to have their child maintenance arrears written off during the case closure process; however all will be given the opportunity to do so. No estimates have been published for the amount of Child Support Agency arrears that will be (a) written off in full, (b) written off in part, (c) re-valued to take account of a previous interim maintenance assessment, or (d) transferred to the Child Maintenance Service for collection.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 226432 question first answered 10/03/2015 12:21:53 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman

225274

registered interest
date	04/03/2015
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, when his Department next plans to release statistics on the 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme.
tabling member constituency	Bishop Auckland
tabling member printed	Helen Goodman
uin	226388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2015 answer text <p /> <p>The next release of the Child Maintenance Service Experimental Statistics on the 2012 Scheme is announced on the GOV.UK website at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/child-maintenance-service-2012-experimental-statistics-february-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/child-maintenance-service-2012-experimental-statistics-february-2015</a></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 09/03/2015 16:33:47 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
tabling member	1484 label Biography information for Helen Goodman