Debbie Abrahams – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Debbie Abrahams on 2015-12-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many monthly Child Maintenance Service new applications from January 2015 were (a) former Child Support Agency (CSA) cases affected by reactive CSA case closure, (b) former CSA cases affective by proactive CSA case closure and (c) other new applications.

Priti Patel

From January 2015 to August 2015 there have been approximately 75,200 applications made to the Child Maintenance Service.

6,800 of these were made by former CSA cases affected by reactive case closure, 22,000 were made by former CSA cases affected by proactive case closure and 46,400 were new applications.

Notes:

1. Total Child Maintenance Service applications can be found in table 1 of the Child Maintenance Service 2012 Scheme Experimental Statistics https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-on-the-2012-statutory-child-maintenance-scheme
2. A system issue has been identified which impacts New Application Intake figures. Investigations have been carried out which identified incorrect duplication of New Applications. Figures have been adjusted to account for these duplicates
3. Cases have been linked between CSA systems and CMS Systems using the paying and receiving parents national insurance numbers.
4. Figures are rounded to the nearest 100.

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