The administration of the Child Support Agency is the matter for the chief executive. He will write to the right hon. Member with the information requested.
Letter from Hilary Reynolds:
In reply to your Parliamentary Question about the Child Support Agency the Secretary of State promised a substantive reply from the Chief Executive. As he is currently on leave, I am responding on his behalf.
You asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many (a) fathers and (b) mothers have responsibility for (i) one (ii) two (Hi) three (iv) four (v) five (vi) six (vii) seven and (viii) eight or more children in different households for whom there is a maintenance liability.
Having contacted your office for clarification, we understand that the information you required was the number of non-resident parents by gender, and the number of CSA cases for which the non-resident parent has a liability.
This information is presented in the attached table.
I hope you find this useful.
Non-resident parent Cases Female Male 1 70,000 1,009,000 2 1,000 47,000 3 — 3,000 4 (or more) 0 — Notes: 1. The above includes cases that are open and have received a full maintenance calculation, full maintenance assessment or default maintenance decision. Cases where a nil liability has been established are included, but old scheme cases with a punitive Interim Maintenance Assessment are excluded, as are new scheme cases being processed clerically. 2. Volumes are rounded to the nearest thousand. ‘?’ indicates a figure less than 500.