Children: Maintenance

(asked on 17th June 2015) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Priti Patel Portrait
Priti Patel
Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
This question was answered on 24th June 2015

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.

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