Children: Maintenance
(asked on 19th February 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money non-resident parents owed resident parents in child maintenance arrears in each Scottish local authority area in the last period for which figures are available.
As at December 2017 the total amount of Child Support Agency Arrears owed to parents with care for each Local Authority in Scotland was:
Local Authority | Child Support Agency Arrears Owed (£ million) |
Aberdeen | 5.2 |
Aberdeenshire | 7.4 |
Angus | 3.8 |
Argyll & Bute | 2.7 |
Clackmannanshire | 1.8 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 4.2 |
Dundee | 5.0 |
East Ayrshire | 4.2 |
East Dunbartonshire | 1.9 |
East Lothian | 2.7 |
East Renfrewshire | 1.5 |
Edinburgh | 7.8 |
Falkirk | 5.0 |
Fife | 12.0 |
Glasgow | 14.3 |
Highland | 6.8 |
Inverclyde | 2.5 |
Midlothian | 2.6 |
Moray | 2.9 |
North Ayrshire | 4.8 |
North Lanarkshire | 10.8 |
Orkney Islands | 0.6 |
Perth & Kinross | 4.3 |
Renfrewshire | 5.0 |
Scottish Borders | 3.2 |
Shetland | 0.9 |
South Ayrshire | 3.3 |
South Lanarkshire | 9.3 |
Stirling | 2.0 |
West Dunbartonshire | 2.8 |
West Lothian | 5.4 |
Western Isles | 0.6 |
As at September 2017 the total amount of Child Maintenance Service Unpaid Maintenance owed to receiving parents for each Local Authority in Scotland was:
Local Authority | Child Maintenance Service Unpaid Maintenance (£ million) |
Aberdeen | 0.6 |
Aberdeenshire | 0.6 |
Angus | 0.3 |
Argyll & Bute | 0.1 |
Clackmannanshire | 0.1 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 0.3 |
Dundee | 0.4 |
East Ayrshire | 0.2 |
East Dunbartonshire | 0.1 |
East Lothian | 0.2 |
East Renfrewshire | 0.1 |
Edinburgh | 0.9 |
Falkirk | 0.4 |
Fife | 0.9 |
Glasgow | 1.2 |
Highland | 0.6 |
Inverclyde | 0.2 |
Midlothian | 0.2 |
Moray | 0.3 |
North Ayrshire | 0.3 |
North Lanarkshire | 0.8 |
Orkney Islands | 0.0 |
Perth & Kinross | 0.2 |
Renfrewshire | 0.4 |
Scottish Borders | 0.1 |
Shetland | 0.1 |
South Ayrshire | 0.2 |
South Lanarkshire | 0.6 |
Stirling | 0.1 |
West Dunbartonshire | 0.2 |
West Lothian | 0.4 |
Western Isles | 0.0 |
Notes:
1) Figures are rounded to the nearest £0.1 million.
2) For the Child Support Agency, cases have been allocated to a local authority in Scotland by matching the residential postcode of the parent with care for all cases administered on the CS2 and CSCS computer systems, as well as cases managed off system, to the Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory.
3) The figures exclude any arrears from the CSA schemes owed to the Secretary of State
4) Figures on the total Unpaid Maintenance in the Child Maintenance Service to December 2017 are due to be published in the Child Maintenance Service statistics: Aug 2013 to Dec 2017 on 28th February 2018.