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170553

	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	Public Health Funerals
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of paupers' funerals in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, (d) England and (e) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years for which figures are available.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	218762
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2014 answer text <p /> <p>My department does not collect data on the number of Local Authority funerals.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 18/12/2014 11:57:14 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

48993

	registered interest
	date	29/04/2014
	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
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much remains outstanding in child maintenance arrears by (a) UK parliamentary constituency area and (b) local authority area in each of the last three years.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	197190
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/05/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>Information on the amount of child maintenance arrears owed by (a) UK parliamentary constituency will be placed in the Library.</p><p> </p><p>The information on child maintenance arrears by (b) local authority area is already published and can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/284686/csa_qtr_summ_stats_regional_dec13.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/284686/csa_qtr_summ_stats_regional_dec13.xls</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>The table contains outstanding arrears figures as at December 2012 and December 2013 broken down by each local authority. Although arrears figures are available in previously published versions of the regional tables (available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics--2" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics--2</a>) these figures are not comparable due to a different methodology.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 06/05/2014 12:00:00 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

62766

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2014
	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, in how many Child Support Agency cases there are (a) non-resident parents with a nil liability at present but at least one child of qualifying age and (b) non-resident parents with a zero assessment because a case has been cancelled or withdrawn or there are no children of qualifying age remaining on the case in (i) Scotland, (ii) England, (iii) Wales and (iv) Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	201264
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Child Support Agency (CSA) administers the 1993 and 2003 Statutory Child Maintenance Schemes in Great Britain.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Of the total CSA Caseload, the number of cases in which the non-resident parent has either a nil liability at present but at least one child of qualifying age (No Current Liability) or a zero assessment because a case has been cancelled or withdrawn or there are no children of qualifying age remaining on the case (No Ongoing Liability) is shown in the table below, as at March 2014:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(a) No Current Liability</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p></td><td><p><strong>(b) No Ongoing Liability</strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Scotland</strong></p></td><td><p>32,200</p></td><td><p>88,200</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>England</strong></p></td><td><p>287,300</p></td><td><p>822,100</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Wales</strong></p></td><td><p>22,200</p></td><td><p>61,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>900</p></td><td><p>1,900</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Other<sup>2</sup></strong></p></td><td><p>1,200</p></td><td><p>186,400</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Overall</strong></p></td><td><p>343,800</p></td><td><p>1,159,500</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Notes:</p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>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).</li><li>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.</li><li>Figures rounded to the nearest 100. Breakdowns may not sum to overall figures due to rounding.</li><li>Figures are broken down from the No Liability cases published on page 58 of the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics-march-2014" target="_blank">Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics</a>.</li></ol><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/06/2014 15:49:17 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

62770

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2014
	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, what timetable he has set for the closure of Child Support Agency cases which do not form part of the Agency's current live caseload.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	201266
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Department is prioritising the closure over the next three years of cases with an ongoing child maintenance liability, and taking steps to minimise disruption as far as possible for parents who wish the statutory service to continue collecting maintenance on their behalf. Plans for handling cases where there is no ongoing liability, but arrears are owed, are still under consideration. Where there is a link between one of these arrears only cases, and an application to the 2012 scheme, action will be taken to bring that arrears only case up-to-date, before moving it across to the Child Maintenance Service.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 201263 question first answered 24/06/2014 12:53:18 answering member 220 label Biography information for Steve Webb
	tabling member	3909 label Biography information for Pamela Nash

62775

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2014
	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, what arrears validation processes are carried out on Child Support Agency cases which do not form part of the caseload before those arrears are transferred to the Child Maintenance Service for collection.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	201263
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The Department is prioritising the closure over the next three years of cases with an ongoing child maintenance liability, and taking steps to minimise disruption as far as possible for parents who wish the statutory service to continue collecting maintenance on their behalf. Plans for handling cases where there is no ongoing liability, but arrears are owed, are still under consideration. Where there is a link between one of these arrears only cases, and an application to the 2012 scheme, action will be taken to bring that arrears only case up-to-date, before moving it across to the Child Maintenance Service.</p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb grouped question UIN 201266 question first answered 24/06/2014 12:53:18 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

62768

	registered interest
	date	18/06/2014
	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, what proportion of the total Child Support Agency arrears owed to parents with care is regarded as (a) potentially collectable and (b) likely to be collected in the next three years in (i) Scotland, (ii) England, (iii) Wales and (iv) Northern Ireland.
	tabling member constituency	Airdrie and Shotts
	tabling member printed	Pamela Nash
	uin	201265
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p /> <p /> <p>The proportion of child maintenance arrears owed to parents with care that is potentially collectable and likely to be collected is shown in the table below, as at March 2013.</p><p> </p><p>Northern Ireland does not fall within the jurisdiction of the Great Britain Child Support Agency.</p><p> </p><p>Collectability analysis looks at the likelihood of arrears being collected and does not include a timeframe for collections.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Total Potentially or Likely to be Collected</p></td><td><p>Potentially Collectable</p></td><td><p>Likely Collectable</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Scotland</p></td><td><p>26%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>25%</p></td><td><p>12%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Wales</p></td><td><p>26%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td><td><p>13%</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>Notes:</p><p>1. Geographical breakdowns are based on the location of the non resident parent in each case.</p><p> </p><p>2. Collectability breakdowns as published in the Client Fund Accounts include an estimate for collections from future legal activity. As this has not yet occurred then it cannot be allocated to geographical areas so is not included in the figures above.</p><p> </p><p>3. Proportions have been calculated using CS2 and CSCS cases only and excludes cases administered off system.</p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Thornbury and Yate answering member printed Steve Webb question first answered 24/06/2014 15:36:44 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

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