Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many investigations have been undertaken by the Financial Investigation Unit of the Child Maintenance Group in each of the financial years since April 2012 to March 2013.

Child Maintenance Group’s Financial Investigation Unit (FIU) was established on 1 April 2014.

For the financial year 2014 – 2015 the FIU conducted 3,749 investigations resulting in both civil and criminal investigations.

For the financial year 2015 – 2016 the FIU conducted 3,186 investigations resulting in both civil and criminal investigations.