Children: Maintenance
(asked on 26th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much child maintenance has not been paid by non-resident parents to parents with care to date (a) in total and (b) under the Collect and Pay scheme in each year since 2012 where figures are available.
The latest statistics on unpaid maintenance are published in Table 9 of the Child Maintenance Service: August 2013 to June 2018 (experimental) statistics available online at:
The figures include all unpaid maintenance from Direct Pay arrangements that have broken down and subsequently transferred onto the Collect & Pay Service. Data on payments made directly between parents on Direct Pay are not available.