Children: Maintenance
(asked on 27th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2014, Official Report, columns 171-2W, on children: maintenance, how much of the amount is written off in child maintenance arrears since November 2012; how much is attributable to (a) a request from the parent with care to write off the arrears, (b) the death of a non-resident parent, (c) the death of a parent with care, (d) an interim maintenance assessment between 1993 and 1995 and (e) a debt where the non-resident parent had been told that no further action would ever be taken.
The amounts written off since November 2012 in the circumstances requested are as follows.
Reason | Year to March 13 | Year to March 14 |
Parent with care request | £365,269 | £9,922,726
|
Non-resident parent death | £683,378 | £4,617,325 |
Parent with care death | £8,121 | £24,240 |
Interim maintenance assessments 1993 - 1995 | £35,796 | £126,340 |
NRP advised debt will not be pursued | £11,648 | £355,956 |
Total | £1,104,212 | £15,046,587 |
Note:
The total does not equal that quoted in response to PQ/14/201287 because there are amounts recorded under categories which are not included in this response.