Children: Maintenance

(asked on 19th May 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Lord McCabe Portrait
Lord McCabe
(Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many closed Child Support Agency cases with child maintenance arrears have been referred for arrears (a) cleansing and (b) validation between January and March 2016.

Answered by
Priti Patel Portrait
Priti Patel
Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
This question was answered on 24th May 2016

(a) The table below shows the number of cases referred for arrears cleansing in each month from January 2016 until March 2016.

Month

Jan-16

Feb-16

Mar-16

Number of cases referred for arrears cleansing

32,720

38,600

29,820

Notes

  1. Figures rounded to the nearest 10.

(b) There is no set separate validation procedure; it forms part of the cleansing process.

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