Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many historical arrears-only cases from the 1993 and 2003 Child Maintenance Schemes have been closed since the Child Maintenance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 came into force on 14 December 2018.

The Department routinely publishes information on the 1993 and 2003 Child Maintenance schemes in the CSA Quarterly Summary of Statistics, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-statistics--2.

The next CSA Quarterly Summary of Statistics is due to be released in May. This will include statistics on the amount of historical arrears written off and the number of cases closed since the Child Maintenance (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018 came into force.