Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases undertaken by the Financial Investigation Unit have resulted in a financial uplift in payments to resident parents through the Child Maintenance Service in each of the last three years.

Whilst we don’t have figures available for the last 3 years, the CMS 2012 experimental statistics publish information from June 16 to December 17. This shows the volume of changes to assessments, shown in Table 12, entitled Financial Investigation Unit actions.

Please see the link below :

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/684262/tables-child-maintenance-service-august-2013-to-december-2017.ods