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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Children: Maintenance (13 November 2017)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much child maintenance debt was collected in the financial years (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17.

Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour)

Answer

Child Maintenance is collected by both the Child Support Agency and the Child Maintenance Service. The total amount of child maintenance collected and the contribution towards arrears for the Child Support Agency is outlined below:

Year

Maintenance Collected (£m)

Of which, contribution towards arrears (£m)

2015/16

629.2

106.7

2016/17

391.5

81.9

Statistics on the Maintenance Collected are published in table 14 of the CSA Quarterly Summary of Statistics for Great Britain, which can be found online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-case-closures-june-2014-to-june-2017

The total amount of child maintenance collected and the contribution towards arrears for the Child Maintenance Service is outlined below:

Year

Maintenance Collected (£m)

Of which, contribution towards arrears (£m)

2015/16

32.6

7.1

2016/17

56.3

12.0

Figures for maintenance collected are published in Table 9 of the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) Experimental Statistics, which can be found online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme-aug-2013-to-jun-2017-experimental


Answered by:
Dame Caroline Dinenage (Conservative)
16 November 2017

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