Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 12 February 2015 to Question 223811, whether the next release of experimental statistics on the 2012 child maintenance scheme will include data on (a) the extent to which cases are fully, partially or nil compliant and (b) the amount of child maintenance arrears currently outstanding on Child Maintenance Service cases.

We intend to include data on the proportion of 2012 cases contributing in the next release of experimental statistics on the 2012 child maintenance scheme.

We are not yet in a position to release full statistics on the 2012 Scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, but when system data become 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.