Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many child maintenance cases used Family Based Arrangements since 2010; and what proportion in each scheme has (a) resulted in regular maintenance and (b) broken down, resulting in the use of the collection service, in each year since 2010.

Family Based Arrangements sit outside of the Child Maintenance Service as these are child maintenance arrangements which parents have agreed

between themselves.

Information on how many child maintenance cases used Family Based Arrangements since 2010 is not routinely recorded for management information purposes and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.