The administration of the Child Support Agency is a matter for the chief executive. He will write to the hon. Member.
Letter from Stephen Geraghty:
In reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the Child Support Agency, the Secretary of State promised a substantive reply from the chief executive.
You asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what estimate he has made of the number of single mothers receiving child support in the London borough of Bexley. [182095]
At the end of September 2007, there were 1,040 female parents with care with an address in the London borough of Bexley that were receiving child support. Not all of these will be single mothers as some may have re-partnered or re-married. The management information held by the Agency does not record if the parents with care are single.
Cases have been allocated to a local authority (borough) using the Office for National Statistics Postcode Directory. There will be a small number of cases where the postcode is unknown or not recorded and therefore cannot be allocated to a local authority.
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