Children: Maintenance

(asked on 28th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Answer of 11 March 2014, Official Report, column 141W, on children: maintenance, what progress he has made on the development of statistics on compliance, collections and enforcement under the statutory child maintenance scheme; and when he will publish these statistics.


Answered by
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Steve Webb
This question was answered on 3rd February 2015

Experimental Official Statistics on the Child Maintenance Service have been published on a regular quarterly cycle since March 2014. The series of reports can be found at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-the-2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme

The statistics remain in the early stages of development with new measures added when they are fully assured and meet Official Statistics standards.

The next release is scheduled for the end of March 2015.

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