Speeches

Pamela Nash – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Pamela Nash on 2014-06-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Child Support Agency cases there are in each revised order of case closure; and when the estimated closure time is for each grouping.

Steve Webb

The table below shows an estimate of when the 800,000 Child Support Agency cases with an ongoing child maintenance liability will close.

Segment and Description

Volume

Start

End

Segment 1 – No child maintenance is liable for payment

156,000

January 2015

February 2016

Segment 2 – Paying parent is currently not paying maintenance

89,000

August 2015

June 2016

Segment 3 – Cases that are currently being managed outside of the two legacy systems

46,000

November 2015

March 2016

Segment 4 – Remaining legacy cases with no enforcement action

380,000

November 2015

September 2017

Segment 5 – Enforcement action is under way

129,000

July 2017

May 2018