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Child Support Agency

Answer

The administration of the Child Support Agency is a matter for the chief executive. He will write to the hon. Member with the information requested.Letter from Stephen Geraghty:"In reply to your 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, on how many occasions the Child Support Agency has paid compensation of amounts of over £1,000 for errors by the agency to parents (a) with and (b) without custody in each of the last five years.""The Agency's Special Payments database does not hold information which differentiates between payments made to parents with care or non-resident parents. To provide this information would require clerical examination of individual cases.""The Agency does not hold sufficiently robust information for dates before 1 December 2001. I apologise for this but can give you information on the umber of cases where a financial redress payment in excess of £1,000 has been paid between the period 1 December 2001 and 31 December 2005.""The table below contains such information as is available."

	Cases paid over £1,000 in each year since December 2001 to parents (both parents with care and non-resident parents)
December 2001 to March 2002 (4 months)	109
April 2002 to March 2003	357
April 2003 to March 2004	385
April 2004 to March 2005	846
April 2005 to December 2005(9 months)	752
Total	2,449

"The 846 cases paid over £1,000 in financial redress between April 04 and March 05 represented 0.06% of our total caseload of around 1.4m for that year.""I hope this is helpful."

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

44230; 443 c240-1W;443 c240-1W

Session

2005-06

Related items

Child Support Agency
Monday, 27 February 2006
Written questions
House of Commons

Subjects

Compensation Child Support Agency Maladministration

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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