Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total amount of child maintenance arrears is in (a) Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency and (b) Scotland.

Child Support Agency

a) As at June 2016 the total value of arrears on cases in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West constituency stood at £5.30m.

b) As at June 2016 the total value of arrears on cases in Scotland stood at £280.11m.

Child Maintenance Service

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 10,000.

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.