Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what proportion of non-resident parents with cases in the Child Maintenance Service's caseload have a statutory calculation which includes earnings from self-employment.

For cases administered by the Child Maintenance Service, as at November 2016, 8% of the total caseload with a statutory calculation was identified as self-employed.

Please note it is not possible to validate employment records for around 20% of the relevant caseload. If we were to exclude those cases without employment records, the self-employed would constitute 10% of the caseload.