[holding answer 8 June 2009]: The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission is responsible for the child maintenance system. I have therefore asked the Child Maintenance Commissioner to write to the right hon. Member with the information requested.
Letter from Stephen Geraghty:
In reply to your recent Parliamentary Question, the Secretary of State promised a substantive reply from the Child Maintenance Commissioner.
You asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions by what date he expects all child maintenance cases to have been transferred to the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission. [278467]
The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission took responsibility for the Child Support Agency from 1 November 2008. The CSA continues to operate and improve performance of the current statuary schemes on behalf of the Commission.
The Commission plans to introduce the new statutory maintenance scheme set out in the Child Maintenance and other Payments Act 2008, in 2011. At that time existing clients of the CSA will, if they choose to, be supported through an application to this new scheme. The Commission expects the transition process to take around 3 years after which both CSA Schemes will close.
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