Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate she has made of the number of cases transferred from the Child Support Agency to the Child Maintenance Service where the debt has been written off; and what the value of debt that has been written off is to date.

Information regarding the legacy debt accrued under the Child Support Agency (CSA) that has been written off in cases which were transferred and held on Child Maintenance Service (CMS) systems is available on Gov.UK.

Chapter 2: Main Stories, and bullet point 3 refers.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-september-2020-experimental/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-data-to-september-2020-experimental

Paragraph 6 refers entitled. ‘CSA debt written off’.