Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many formal complaints have been made to the Child Maintenance Service in respect of collecting arrears in (a) the UK (b) Scotland and (c) Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency; and if she will make a statement.

The Department does not hold information relating to complaints made to the Child Maintenance service in Northern Ireland and cannot therefore provide information for the UK. Information on the number of complaints made to the Child Maintenance Service in Scotland and the Linlithgow and East Falkirk constituency that relate to the collection of arrears is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

You might be interested in Table 17: Complaints which highlights the number of complaints received by the Child Maintenance Service (in Great Britain) each quarter.

These statistics are published online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-the-2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme