Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire, Conservative)
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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of the Child Support Agency's cases with a positive liability for child maintenance used the Agency's collection service in the last 12 months.
Maria Miller (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Disabled People), Work and Pensions; Basingstoke, Conservative)
The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission is responsible for the child maintenance system. I have asked the Child Maintenance Commissioner to write to the hon. Member with the information requested and I have seen the response.
Letter from Noel Shanahan
In reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the Child Support Agency, the Secretary of State promised a substantive reply from the Child Maintenance Commissioner as the Child Support Agency is now the responsibility of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission.
You asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what proportion of the Child Support Agency’s cases with a positive liability for child maintenance used the Agency’s collection service in the last 12 months
The following table shows the number of cases where maintenance is due, the number of cases that used the collection service (split by the number paying and not paying), and the number who do not use the collection service and have their own ‘Maintenance Direct’ arrangement between the non-resident parent and the parent with care.
Quarter Ending Maintenance Due Paying via the Collection Service % of cases paying via the Collection Service Using the Collection Service but not currently paying % of cases using the Collection Service but not currently paying Paying Maintenance Direct % of cases paying Maintenance Direct Jun 2011 862,100 493,900 57 192,700 22 175,400 20 Sep 2011 872,000 502,000 58 193,700 22 176,300 20 Dec 2011 876,300 505,100 58 192,500 22 178,700 20 Mar 2012 872,900 514,100 59 177,100 20 181,700 21