Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of Child Maintenance Service cases have been transferred from direct pay to collect and pay due to non-compliance in each of the last three years.

The Department publishes quarterly Child Maintenance Service official statistics. In the latest National tables, Table 3 provides data on the number of arrangements moving from one service type to another within the Child Maintenance Service from October 2015 to September 2015. The table includes the number of Direct Pay arrangements at the start of each quarter and the number of arrangements moving from Direct Pay to Collect and Pay during the quarter.