Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of claims made against parents through Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders by the Maintenance Enforcement Business Centre are successful.

We do not hold the information requested regarding what proportion of correspondence to the Maintenance Enforcement Business Centre was responded to within the working days requested. HMCTS does not collect data on response times.

We do not hold the information requested regarding how many members of staff at the Maintenance Enforcement Business Centre have been assigned to handle public correspondence in each year since 2015. Staff in the Maintenance Enforcement Business Centres have mixed roles and are not employed purely to handle public correspondence. They rotate across all tasks to best meet the needs of the service on a flexible and ever-changing basis.

We do not hold the information requested regarding what proportion of claims made against parents through Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders by the Maintenance Enforcement Business Centre are successful. HMCTS does not collect data on the outcome of cases which would allow for such an analysis.