Children: Maintenance

(asked on 14th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many cases the Child Maintenance Service has handled under (a) direct pay and (b) collect and pay in each year since 2013.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 23rd January 2020

Please find attached data on the number of child maintenance arrangements. We are unable to provide information back to 2013 as data is only available since 2015.

The number of Child Maintenance Arrangements

The number of child maintenance arrangements managed by the Child Maintenance Service, split by service type

Child Maintenance Arrangements

Quarter Ending

Direct Pay

C&P total

Mar-15

79,100

37,200

Mar-16

141,900

61,900

Mar-17

220,600

95,400

Mar-18

272,100

137,600

Mar-19

307,600

165,700

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