Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much the Child Support Agency has collected in current maintenance and arrears in each of the last four years for which figures are available; and what the total maintenance liabilities were in each such year.
Answered by Steve Webb
The table below shows yearly figures for liability accrued and collections towards maintenance and arrears by the Child Support Agency.
Rolling 12 Months: | Liability Accrued (£m)1 | Maintenance Collected (£m) | Of which, Contribution towards Arrears (£m) |
March 20111 | - | £768.9 | £125.1 |
March 20121 | - | £790.8 | £118.4 |
March 2013 | £915.7 | £828.4 | £167.4 |
March 2014 | £942.4 | £849.0 | £155.8 |
Notes:
1. Annual liability is only available from March 2013 due to new methodology only being available from January 2012. Maintenance Collected and Contribution towards Arrears are based on old methodology for March 2011 and March 2012.
Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of paupers' funerals in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, (d) England and (e) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years for which figures are available.
Answered by Steve Webb
My department does not collect data on the number of Local Authority funerals.
Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many liability orders for oustanding child maintenance arrears have been issued to non-resident parents in each of the last four years for which figures are available in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) Wales, (d) England, (e) Northern Ireland, (f) each local authority area and (g) each Parliamentary constituency.
Answered by Steve Webb
Figures on the number of liability orders granted in relation to cases administered by the Child Support Agency is published in table 17 (page 44) of the latest Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics, which contains data up to September 2014. Information on liability orders broken down by country is not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
We are not yet in a position to release full statistics on the 2012 Scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, but when system data becomes available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the proportion of (a) women and (b) men in (i) the UK, (ii) Scotland, (iii) England, (iv) Wales and (v) Northern Ireland aged 56 years who in each of the last four years have had no pension savings.
Answered by Steve Webb
The exact breakdowns that have been requested are not readily available.
Asked by: Pamela Nash (Labour - Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke)
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in how many live Child Support Agency cases with maintenance arrears there is an arrears charging schedule in place; and in how many such cases arrears repayments are being made in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland.
Answered by Steve Webb
The table below shows the number of Child Support Agency cases with an arrears liability and the number of those cases paying towards arrears in the quarter ending September 2014:
| Number of Cases with an Arrears Liability | Paying Towards Arrears |
Scotland | 105,600 | 19,100 |
England | 1,026,400 | 199,100 |
Wales | 73,200 | 14,300 |
Northern Ireland4 | 2,700 | 600 |
Other5 | 50,500 | 1,400 |
Great Britain | 1,258,400 | 234,600 |
Notes
1. In January 2012 new methodology was introduced to provide a more accurate view of the number of cases contributing towards arrears. Previously, arrears collected figures included arrears of maintenance that have been linked to an arrears collection schedule. In the new methodology, payments above the current liability are counted as receipts towards arrears.
2. The latest Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics contains data up to September 2014. Table 10: Cases Contributing Towards Arrears, shows the number of cases with an arrears liability and also the number of cases paying towards arrears.
3. Figures rounded to the nearest 100 and may not sum due to rounding.
4. Northern Ireland cases include cases managed by the CSA in Great Britain where the Parent with Care lives in Northern Ireland. This does not include cases managed by the Northern Ireland Child Maintenance Enforcement Division (CMED).
5. Cases included in the ‘Other’ category are cases where either the Parent with Care has moved abroad, or where the area of the Parent with Care is Unknown.