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Written question asked by Gareth Johnson (Conservative) on Tuesday, 1 March 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 3 March 2011. It was answered by Maria Miller (Conservative) on Tuesday, 15 March 2011 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

Children: Maintenance

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many parents resident in Dartford constituency have used the Child Support Agency or the Child Maintenance Enforcement Commission to ensure child maintenance payments are enforced in each of the last five years.
Answer

The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission is responsible for the child maintenance system. I have asked the Child Maintenance Commissioner to write to the hon. Member with the information requested and I have seen the response.Letter from Stephen Geraghty, dated 8 March 2011:"In reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the Child Support Agency, the Secretary of State promised a substantive reply from the Child Maintenance Commissioner as the Child Support Agency is now the responsibility of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission.""You asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many parents resident in Dartford constituency have used the Child Support Agency or the Child Maintenance Enforcement Commission to ensure child maintenance payments are enforced in each of the last five years. [44108]""The number of cases currently being handled by the Child Support Agency, where the parent with care lives in Dartford parliamentary constituency, are shown in the table below. Figures include all live cases and also cases without a current assessment but where arrears are still owed from a previous assessment. The figures also include those cases which are managed off the main computer system from December 2008."

Quarter ending as at December each year Cases
2006 1,850
2007 1,930
2008 2,010
2009 1,890
2010 1,780
Notes:
1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10.
2. Figures based on cases where the parent with care lives in Dartford constituency.
3. Figures reflect the performance of cases administered off system from December 2008.
4. It should be noted that the parliamentary constituency of Dartford had its boundary redrawn at the time of the 2010 general election. The caseload figure as at December 2010 is therefore not comparable with the figures prior to this date.

"I hope you find this answer helpful."

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
44108; 525 c241-2W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Children Maintenance Dartford
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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