Children: Maintenance
(asked on 13th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much child maintenance debt was collected in the financial years (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17.
Child Maintenance is collected by both the Child Support Agency and the Child Maintenance Service. The total amount of child maintenance collected and the contribution towards arrears for the Child Support Agency is outlined below:
Year | Maintenance Collected (£m) | Of which, contribution towards arrears (£m) |
2015/16 | 629.2 | 106.7 |
2016/17 | 391.5 | 81.9 |
Statistics on the Maintenance Collected are published in table 14 of the CSA Quarterly Summary of Statistics for Great Britain, which can be found online at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-case-closures-june-2014-to-june-2017
The total amount of child maintenance collected and the contribution towards arrears for the Child Maintenance Service is outlined below:
Year | Maintenance Collected (£m) | Of which, contribution towards arrears (£m) |
2015/16 | 32.6 | 7.1 |
2016/17 | 56.3 | 12.0 |
Figures for maintenance collected are published in Table 9 of the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) Experimental Statistics, which can be found online at: