PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Children: Maintenance (4 March 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Support Agency cases remain to be migrated to the Child Maintenance Service; and what estimate he has made of when that process will be complete.

Asked by:
Debbie Abrahams (Labour)

At 31 January 2015 743,100 live Child Support Agency cases remained eligible for case closure. The Child Support Agency started to end child maintenance arrangements on its 1993 and 2003 schemes in 2014 and all cases are due to have their arrangements ended by the end of 2017.

Parents are being encouraged to think about making their own family-based arrangement and those who are not able to come to such an agreement are able to apply to the Child Maintenance Service.

Note:

1. This is an indicative estimate based on the case load as at 31 January 2015.

Answered by:
Steve Webb (Liberal Democrat)
9 March 2015