Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of Child Support Agency, Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission and Child Maintenance Service cases involve self-employed non-resident parents.

There are currently three statutory maintenance schemes. The 1993 and 2003 schemes are delivered by the Child Support Agency and the 2012 Scheme is delivered by the Child Maintenance Service.

For cases administered by the Child Support Agency, as at June 2014, the proportion of the live caseload where the non-resident parent is self employed was 7.5%.

We are not yet in a position to release full statistics for the 2012 Scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service. When system data becomes available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.