Children: Maintenance
(asked on 14th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many and what proportion of parents were under (a) Direct Pay and (b) Collect and Pay schemes in each year of the operation of the (i) Child Support Agency and (ii) Child Maintenance Service.
i) For the Child Support Agency, the requested information relates to Maintenance Direct and the Collection Service as the service types for the 1993 and 2003 Child Maintenance Schemes.
Date | Volume | Proportions (%) | ||
Collection Service4 | Maintenance Direct | Collection Service | Maintenance Direct | |
March 20031 | 903,600 | 91,500 | 91 | 9 |
March 2004 | 921,500 | 86,100 | 91 | 9 |
March 2005 | 960,700 | 93,500 | 91 | 9 |
March 2006 | 1,020,600 | 112,800 | 90 | 10 |
March 2007 | 1,048,700 | 132,300 | 89 | 11 |
March 20082 | 1,083,200 | 153,900 | 88 | 12 |
March 2009 | 1,079,700 | 165,300 | 87 | 13 |
March 20103 | 981,000 | 169,800 | 85 | 15 |
March 2011 | 971,600 | 174,100 | 85 | 15 |
March 2012 | 1,159,800 | 172,000 | 87 | 13 |
March 2013 | 1,196,400 | 181,900 | 87 | 13 |
March 2014 | 1,206,500 | 185,000 | 87 | 13 |
March 2015 | 1,151,300 | 181,500 | 86 | 14 |
March 2016 | 1,081,900 | 138,600 | 89 | 11 |
Note:
1) Figures are provided from 2003 onwards as figures before this date do not include off system cases and it would be disproportionate cost to try and attain these figures.
2) Figures from April 2008 onwards reflect the performance of cases off system and cases where a payment has been made manually as well as cases on the computer systems.
3) A drop in the caseload from March 2010 can be attributed to the removal of suspended cases on the CSCS computer system
4) Figures for the Collection Service include all the caseload except Maintenance Direct cases not just those with a current liability.
More details can be found on page 4 of the Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics which can be accessed online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/592860/csa-quarterly-summary-statistics-december-2016.pdf.
ii) For the Child Maintenance Service, the requested information is only available since August 2014 and is provided in the Table below for each year.
Volume | Mar-15 | Mar-16 |
Collect & Pay | 28,600 | 51,800 |
Direct Pay | 60,100 | 120,500 |
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Proportions (%) |
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Collect & Pay | 32 | 30 |
Direct Pay | 68 | 70 |
More details can be found on page 8 of the Child Maintenance Scheme quarterly summary of statistics which can be accessed online at:
The figures are case based, note that a parent may have more than one case and may have cases on both Direct Pay and Collect and Pay schemes.