Kate Green – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Kate Green on 2014-06-27.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 24 June 2014, Official Report, columns 171-2W, on children: maintenance, how much of the amount is written off in child maintenance arrears since November 2012; how much is attributable to (a) a request from the parent with care to write off the arrears, (b) the death of a non-resident parent, (c) the death of a parent with care, (d) an interim maintenance assessment between 1993 and 1995 and (e) a debt where the non-resident parent had been told that no further action would ever be taken.
Steve Webb
The amounts written off since November 2012 in the circumstances requested are as follows.
|
Reason |
Year to March 13 |
Year to March 14 |
|
Parent with care request |
£365,269 |
£9,922,726 |
|
Non-resident parent death |
£683,378 |
£4,617,325 |
|
Parent with care death |
£8,121 |
£24,240 |
|
Interim maintenance assessments 1993 – 1995 |
£35,796 |
£126,340 |
|
NRP advised debt will not be pursued |
£11,648 |
£355,956 |
|
Total |
£1,104,212 |
£15,046,587 |
Note:
The total does not equal that quoted in response to PQ/14/201287 because there are amounts recorded under categories which are not included in this response.
