Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Support Agency (a) arrears-only and (b) arrears cases involving a current liability for a child there are in Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency.

As of June 2016 there were 1,340 arrears only cases and 430 arrears cases involving current liability in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency held by the Child Support Agency.

Notes:

1) Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10.

2) 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.

3) A case is classed as having a ‘Current Liability’ if it is open, has children of a qualifying age and has a positive liability (i.e. assessment to pay maintenance). This includes cases due to pay via Maintenance Direct.