Child Maintenance Service statistics: data to March 2022 (experimental)
Quarterly experimental statistics on the Child Maintenance Service to March 2022.
Applies to England, Scotland and Wales
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The latest release of these statistics can be found in the collection of Child Maintenance Service statistics.
Experimental statistics on child maintenance arrangements administered by the Child Maintenance Service (CMS).
CMS statistics are also available on Stat-Xplore, an online tool for exploring some of the Department for Work and Pensions’ main statistics.
Child Support Agency arrears data
The final publication of the Child Support Agency (CSA) Quarterly Summary Statistics (QSS) was published on 27 October 2021.
The following CSA statistics have transferred from the QSS and are now published alongside the CMS quarterly statistics instead:
- collections and write-off on CSA arrears only case groups
- methods of debt collection for CSA arrears only case groups
The arrears tables relate to CSA debt that has transferred to the CMS for collection.
Last updated 28 July 2022 + show all updates
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Edited section 4 (Applications to the Child Maintenance Service) - the new applications intake figure has changed from 25,400 to 26,900. Also edited section 10 (Enforcement) - the figure for Regular or Lump Sum Deduction Orders in process has changed from 2,900 to 4,500. National data tables 3 and 7.1 and the charts about ‘Applications to the Child Maintenance’ and ‘Deduction Orders and Civil Enforcement Actions’ have been updated to reflect these changes.
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First published.