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	April 2006	May 2006	June 2006	July 2006	August 2006	September 2006
City of London	<100	<100	<100	<100	<100	<100
Barking and Dagenham	900	900	1,000	900	900	1,000
Barnet	600	700	700	700	700	800
Bexley	800	800	800	800	800	900
Brent	700	700	700	700	700	800
Bromley	900	900	900	900	900	900
Camden	500	500	500	500	500	600
Croydon	1,500	1,600	1,600	1,600	1,600	1,700
Ealing	800	800	900	800	800	900
Enfield	900	900	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,100
Greenwich	1,000	1,000	1,100	1,000	1,100	1,200
Hackney	600	700	700	700	700	700
Hammersmith and Fulham	500	600	600	500	600	600
Haringey	700	800	800	800	800	900
Harrow	500	500	500	500	500	500
Havering	600	600	600	600	600	700
Hillingdon	800	800	800	800	800	900
Hounslow	800	800	800	800	800	900
Islington	600	700	700	600	700	700
Kensington and Chelsea	300	300	300	300	300	300
Kingston upon Thames	300	300	300	300	300	300
Lambeth	1,300	1,300	1,400	1,300	1,300	1,400
Lewisham	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,300	1,400
Merton	600	600	600	600	600	600
Newham	800	800	900	800	900	1,000
Redbridge	600	700	700	700	700	800
Richmond upon Thames	300	300	300	300	300	300
Southwark	1,200	1,300	1,300	1,200	1,300	1,400
Sutton	500	600	600	600	600	600
Tower Hamlets	500	500	500	500	500	600
Waltham Forest	700	800	800	800	800	800
Wandsworth	800	800	800	800	800	800
Westminster	400	400	400	400	400	400
Notes to tables: 1. All numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred. 2. Data to local authority area level is not available for old scheme cases on the Child Support Computer System (CSCS), because CSCS is monitored using a 5 per cent sample of cases. Therefore, the number of cases in each local authority area is too small to give a representative sample of Agency performance.

Child Support Agency

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what estimate he has made of the average age of uncleared Child Support Agency cases in each quarter since Q2 1997; and if he will make a statement; [102197]

(2) what the average age has been of uncleared Child Support Agency applications for each month since May 1997; and if he will make a statement. [102193]

Mr. Plaskitt: The administration of the Child Support Agency is the matter for the Chief Executive. He will write to the hon. Member with the information requested.

Letter form Stephen Geraghty:

In reply to your recent Parliamentary Questions 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 two related questions:

What the average age has been of uncleared Child Support Agency applications for each month since May 1997; and if he will make a statement; and

What estimate he has made of the average age of uncleared Child Support Agency cases for each quarter since Q2 1997; and if he will make a statement.

Such information as is available can be found in Table 5 of the September 2006 Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics, a copy of which is available in the House of Commons Library, or on the internet via the following link:

www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/child_support/csa_quarterly_ sep06.asp

I hope you find this answer helpful.

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what his estimate is of the amountof Child Support Agency outstanding unpaid maintenance arrears in each quarter since 1993, broken down into (a) collectable, (b) possibly uncollectable, (c) deferred and (d) probably uncollectable; [102206]

(2) what the total uncollected Child Support Agency arrears were in each year since 1993, broken down by quarter; how much of the amount is assessed as (a) uncollectable and (b) collectable; and if he will make a statement. [102239]

Mr. Plaskitt: The administration of the Child Support Agency is the matter for the chief executive. He will write to the hon. Member with the information requested.

Letter from Stephen Geraghty:

In reply to your recent Parliamentary questions 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:-

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