To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs pursuant to the answer of 22 February 2007, Official Report, column 867W, on maintenance: children, what information is collected by the courts IT system in relation to child maintenance cases. (129912)

In the County courts and the Principal Registry of the Family Division “FamilyMan” is the case management system. It is used to record the key events in each case, such as the date of listing of an application, and the date of making and nature of an order (i.e. interim order/final order/order by consent). The information collected by the courts' IT system in relation to child maintenance cases is limited to this. There is no unified IT system in the Family Proceedings Courts. Where a Family Proceedings Court and the County court administrations have been co-located, the Family Proceedings Court can use “FamilyMan”.