Children: Maintenance
(asked on 26th February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what his Department's most recent estimate is of the number of Child Support Agency cases within each segment of the planned case closure programme in (a) the UK, (b) Scotland, (c) England, (d) Wales and (e) Northern Ireland.
The most recent estimates of the number of Child Support Agency cases within each segment of the case closure programme are:
| SEGMENT |
| ||||
Segment 1 | Segment 2 | Segment 3 | Segment 4 | Segment 5 | Total | |
England | 137,900 | 48,600 | 21,900 | 317,000 | 106,200 | 631,700 |
Scotland | 15,000 | 4,000 | 2,100 | 31,600 | 10,800 | 63,400 |
Wales | 10,300 | 3,200 | 1,500 | 22,400 | 7,500 | 44,900 |
NI | 300 | 200 | 100 | 800 | 400 | 1,700 |
Other | 400 | 100 | 300 | 500 | 200 | 1,400 |
Total | 164,000 | 56,000 | 25,800 | 372,200 | 125,100 | 743,100 |
Notes:
1. These are indicative estimates based on the case load as at 31 January 2015 and are subject to change due to cases continually moving segments.
2. Northern Ireland cases include cases managed by the CSA in Great Britain where the Parent with Care or Non Resident Parent lives in Northern Ireland. This does not include cases managed by the Northern Ireland Child Maintenance Enforcement Division (CMED).
3. Other includes those that are abroad or where insufficient information is held to enable classification.
4. Volumes shown in the table above represent all live cases that were eligible for case closure and had not been closed as at 31 January 2015.
5. Figures rounded to the nearest 100 and may not sum due to rounding.