Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much child support arrears are concerned in (a) Motherwell and Wishaw, (b) North Lanarkshire Westminster Parliamentary constituencies, and (c) Scotland, under the Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018.

As of June 2018 (most recent published regional data, rounded to nearest thousand), there were the following amounts of unpaid maintenance from Child Support Agency cases:

(a) Motherwell and Wishaw parliamentary constituency - £4,034,000 of child support arrears

(b) North Lanarkshire Local Authority - £17,366,000 of child support arrears

(c) Scotland - £ 225,269,000 of child support arrears

Figures for b and c are published in the regional tables of the Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/child-support-agency-quarterly-summary-of-statistics-june-2018

These amounts include all Child Support Agency cases with arrears. This includes cases where recent payments have been made and those where there has been no payment made within the last 3 months. The vast majority of these cases have received no recent payment, and it is only these cases that will be addressed under the Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2018.