Children: Maintenance

(asked on 2nd November 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many people in East Ham constituency (a) are entitled to claim child maintenance and (b) have experienced payment arrears due to non-resident parents not paying full or any child maintenance within the last 12 months; and what the total value is of these unpaid arrears.


Answered by
Caroline Nokes Portrait
Caroline Nokes
This question was answered on 7th November 2016

As at June 2016, there were 1,230 live cases with the Child Support Agency in the East Ham constituency and, in the 12 months to June 2016, 390 cases have experienced new payment arrears due to a non-resident parent either not paying any child maintenance or not paying in full.

Information on geographical breakdowns on the Child Maintenance Service is not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Notes:

1) Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10.

2) Monetary values are rounded to the nearest pound.

3) Cases have been allocated to a parliamentary constituency by matching the residential postcode of the parent with care or non-resident parent for all cases administered on the CS2 and CSCS computer systems and cases managed off system to the Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory.

4) The number of live cases might not include all people who are entitled to claim child maintenance in that constituency as we only hold data on people who apply to the Child Support Agency.

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