Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what plans his Department has to use Integrated Debt Services Ltd to collect (a) child maintenance arrears owed to his Department and (b) maintenance arrears owed to parents with care with arrears only Child Support Agency cases.
The Department has a wide range of effective enforcement powers to facilitate the collection of child maintenance. There are no current plans to use integrated Debt Services Ltd to collect child maintenance arrears.