Child Support Agency

EDM number 675 in 2005-06, proposed by Frank Field on 21/07/2005.

That this House regrets that after two years and two chief executives the Child Support Agency now owes £869 million in unpaid maintenance to 1.4 million parents including 260,000 who have received no payments at all as well as a further £1 billion written off as uncollectable, that new applications for maintenance are still not being cleared at a rate equivalent to intake and that the compliance rate for all cases is still only 75 per cent.; further regrets that 714,000 families still have cases on the old computer system operating on the old scheme rules and that a quarter of all maintenance calculations are still incorrect; and therefore calls on the Government urgently to formulate a long-term contingency plan and to give serious consideration to placing child maintenance collection with Revenue and Customs.

This motion has been signed by a total of 47 MPs.