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, how many individual change of circumstances the Child Maintenance Service or Child Support Agency has processed in each year since 2010.
For cases administered by the Child Support Agency, information on the number of individual change of circumstances output, is only readily available from November 2010. Information broken down by financial year from April 2011 is provided in the table below.
Year | Number of change of circumstance outputs |
April 2011 – March 2012 | 2,930,868 |
April 2012 – March 2013 | 3,204,127 |
April 2013 – March 2014 | 2,948,445 |
Note:
The information is provided for GB cases only
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.