Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the March 2017 report of the NAO entitled Child maintenance: closing cases and managing arrears on the 1993 and 2003 schemes, HC 1054, what assessment is made of the implications for the level of Child Maintenance Service payments of the (a) war pension and (b) other legacy benefits that a person claims.

In the referenced report the NAO presented findings regarding the progress of the Child Support Agency case closure programme and the manner in which arrears accrued under the Child Support Agency were being managed at that time. No assessment of the type described has been carried out as it relates solely to the Child Maintenance Service, and not to the Child Support Agency which was the focus of the NAO report