Children: Maintenance
(asked on 11th September 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of cases involving parents who did not give the right information to the Child Maintenance Service or Child Support Agency were (a) successfully taken to court and (b) received the maximum fine in the last five years.
For cases administered by the Child Support Agency, information is only available on the number of cases where action was taken for misrepresentation of evidence, which is provided in the table below. Information is not available on the overall number of cases referred to court or the value of the fine imposed.
Year | Number of cases where action taken for misrepresentation of evidence |
April 2009 – March 2010 | 30 |
April 2010 – March 2011 | 40 |
April 2011 – March 2012 | 55 |
April 2012 – March 2013 | 60 |
April 2013 – March 2014 | 15 |
The 2012 child maintenance scheme, administered by the Child Maintenance Service, was opened to all new applicants on 25 November 2013. We are not yet in a position to release full statistics, therefore we are unable to provide you with the information requested. When system data becomes available and fully assured they will be released as part of a managed process, which will be pre-announced and in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.
Note:
1. Figures rounded to nearest 5.