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Children: Maintenance

Question for Department for Work and Pensions

UIN 171427, tabled on 6 September 2018

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many hours the Child Maintenance System has been (a) unavailable to staff and (b) working with reduced performance in the last six months.

Answered on

14 September 2018

We record all incidents where the 2012 Child Maintenance Service has not been available for staff. Over the last six months, this has been:

Month

Minutes lost

Hours Lost

% Availability

March

1230

20.5

97.73%

April

0

0

100.00%

May

103

1.72

99.70%

June

30

0.5

99.93%

July

30

0.5

99.91%

Aug

180

3

99.62%

Although we manage periods of reduced performance as incidents, there is no formal measure for degraded service as these may impact sub-sets of system users differently.