Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many parents under the Child Maintenance Service were paying child maintenance using a Deduction from Earnings order in each quarter of the last three years.
The below table gives the number of Paying Parents on the Child Maintenance Service, who, at the end of each quarter, were using the Collect & Pay service with a Deduction from Earnings Order. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. These figures count all Paying Parents using a Deduction from Earnings Order, regardless of whether any maintenance had been paid in that quarter. The figures do not include Deduction from Earnings Requests.
Quarter Ending | DEOs in place |
Mar-16 | 14,800 |
Jun-16 | 16,900 |
Sep-16 | 18,800 |
Dec-16 | 20,700 |
Mar-17 | 21,700 |
Jun-17 | 23,900 |
Sep-17 | 26,200 |
Dec-17 | 30,200 |
Mar-18 | 36,000 |
Jun-18 | 40,800 |
Sep-18 | 43,300 |
Dec-18 | 45,100 |
Statistics including data to March 2019 will be published on 26th June.