Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the total amount of child maintenance arrears was in (a) Glasgow East constituency and (b) Scotland in the latest period for which figures are available.

Child Support Agency

a) As at July 2017 the total value of arrears on Child Support Agency cases in the Glasgow East constituency stood at £5.50m.

b) As at July 2017 the total value of arrears on Child Support Agency cases in Scotland stood at £243.22m.

Child Maintenance Service

Information on the total value of arrears on cases in the Glasgow East, and in Scotland, for the Child Maintenance Service could only be provided at disproportionate cost.

Notes:

1) Numbers are rounded to the nearest 10,000.

2) Cases have been allocated to Glasgow East parliamentary constituency by matching the residential postcode of the parent with care for all cases administered on the CS2 and CSCS computer systems, as well as cases managed off system, to the Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory.