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Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 200570, tabled on 12 June 2014

Question

Mr Nigel Evans
Conservative
Ribble Valley
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many parents are in arrears to the Child Support Agency in (a) Ribble Valley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK.

Answer

Steve Webb
Liberal Democrat
Thornbury and Yate
Commons

Answered on

18 June 2014

The Child Support Agency (CSA) administers the 1993 and 2003 Statutory Child Maintenance Schemes in Great Britain.

The latest area breakdown available for the number of CSA cases with arrears is available as at the end of the quarter to December 2013 and has been provided in the table below:

Ribble Valley1

Lancashire1,3

GB2

Dec-13

1,700

36,000

1,277,000

Notes:

1. Figures rounded to nearest 10.

2. Figures rounded to nearest 100.

3. Lancashire consists of the following Local Authorities: Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Burnley, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Preston, RibbleValley, Rossendale, South Ribble, West Lancashire and Wyre.

4. Caseloads have been allocated to a Local Authority and Parliamentary Constituency by matching the residential postcode of the parent with care for all cases administered on the CS2 and CSCS computer systems and cases managed off system, to the Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory.

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