Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, when her Department plans to respond to the National Audit Office report entitled Child maintenance: closing cases and managing arrears on the 1993 and 2003 schemes published 28 March 2017; and if she will make a statement.

We gave consideration to key findings of the National Audit Office report – Child maintenance closing cases and managing arrears on the 1993 and 2003 schemes when developing our Child Maintenance Compliance and Arrears strategy – which was published on 12 July 2018. The NAO report helped inform our approach for how we should address historic arrears that accrued under the Child Support Agency Scheme. There are no other plans to respond directly to this report.