Children: Maintenance

(asked on 7th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what recent estimate her Department has made of the (a) scale of the backlog of child maintenance cases and (b) likely timeframe for clearing those cases.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 10th February 2022

The information requested is published and can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-maintenance-service-statistics-data-to-september-2021-experimental

The department acknowledges there has been a rise in outstanding changes of circumstances in the last reported quarter from end of June 2021 to the end of September 2021. The Department has redeployed resources to address this rise in outstanding work since the publication of these statistics and estimates that this will show an arresting of growth in the next statistical release.

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