Children: Maintenance
(asked on 21st February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, in how many Child Maintenance Service cases a parent is in arrears of above (a) £1,000, (b) £5,000 (c) £10,000 as of 21 February 2023.
The department does not currently hold the information you have requested up to the 21st of February 2023. We can provide the number of paying parents with arrears as of the 30th of September 2022. This will align with the latest published Child Maintenance Service statistics.
Level of arrears | Number of Paying Parents | Cumulative count |
More than £1,000 but less than or equal to £5,000 | 80,837 | 80,837 |
More than £5,000 but less than or equal to £10,000 | 19,401 | 100,238 |
More than £10,000 | 8,295 | 108,533 |