Tag: Stephen Lloyd

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Lloyd on 2015-02-11.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, how many electricity customers switched to an independent supplier in each month of 2014.

Matthew Hancock

Ahead of the Government’s ‘Power to Switch’ campaign to encourage people to switch supplier and save money the most recent industry switching data produced by Energy UK and Electralink shows the number of electricity customers switching to in an independent supplier in each month of 2014 to be:

Jan-14	86,253
Feb-14	90,056
Mar-14	101,002
Apr-14	119,022
May-14	108,904
Jun-14	99,199
Jul-14	82,690
Aug-14	84,107
Sep-14	113,883
Oct-14	114,275
Nov-14	85,741
Dec-14	70,364

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Lloyd on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference the Answer of 27 June 2012, Official Report, column 296, on children: maintenance, what proportion of Child Support Agency arrears cases include arrears that have been suspended; and what steps have since been taken to establish the proportion of cases where arrears have been (a) temporarily and (b) permanently suspended.

Steve Webb

As of March 2014 approximately 48% of Child Support Agency cases with arrears contained an amount of suspended arrears.

Analysis of a sample of the caseload at November 2013 identified that approximately 14% of suspended arrears on the CS2 computer system were permanently suspended, leaving 86% temporarily suspended.

It is not possible to produce the proportion of cases temporarily or permanently suspended on the CSCS computer system because the information is not readily available and has not previously been published as official statistics. We will consider whether it is feasible to produce the statistics requested within the disproportionate cost limit, and if so, will issue them in an official statistics release in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

Notes:

Management information on suspended debt is not available for off system cases, therefore the proportion of cases with arrears that contain suspended arrears has been calculated using CS2 and CSCS cases only.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Lloyd on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what average amount of child maintenance arrears is owed to parents with care.

Steve Webb

As at March 2014, the average amount of child maintenance arrears owed to parents with care is £2,146¹.

Notes

1. Arrears amounts are calculated on cases with a positive outstanding arrears value, against the 1993 and 2003 statutory maintenance schemes only, including cases managed off system.

The average amount of arrears owed to parents with care is calculated using the proportion of total arrears owed to parents with care and the proportion of cases where arrears are owed to parents with care, on the CSCS and CS2 computer systems only.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Lloyd on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many child support agency arrears cases are cases where there is no ongoing liability.

Steve Webb

At March 2014 there were 532,500 Child Support Agency cases which had arrears with no ongoing liability.

Note: This includes cases administered on the 1993 and 2003 schemes only.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Lloyd on 2014-06-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps the Child Support Agency has in place to review decisions taken to temporarily suspend action to recover child maintenance arrears and to establish whether the circumstances which led to the temporary suspension of recovery action have changed.

Steve Webb

Child Support Agency cases with suspended debt will be investigated if the Agency is made aware of any changes of circumstance that would warrant the suspended debt being collected.

Under the new Child Maintenance Service all cases will be subject to an annual review. If the paying parent is working, the case will be reassessed and, if appropriate, any suspended debt reinstated.