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Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people (a) were sent to prison and (b) lost their driving licences for failing to co-operate with the Child Support Agency in each (i) quarter and (ii) year since April 1997. [145374]

Mr. Plaskitt: 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, dated 25 June 2007:

Table 1: numbers of committals and driving licences
April 2002—March 2003 April 2003—March 2004 April 2004—March 2005 April 2005—March 2006 February 2006—January 2007

Number of suspended prison sentences passed

36

107

*225

*390

*385

Number of prison sentences passed

4

9

*5

*15

*40

Number of suspended driving licence disqualification sentences passed

7

9

*25

*35

*30

Number of driving licence disqualification sentences passed

1

1

*5

*5

*5

Notes:
1. The figures marked with an asterix are sourced from the Agency’s Quarterly Summary Statistics. Prior to April 2004, the figures given were clerically collated and are actual figures, not subject to rounding.
2. Figures sourced from the Agency’s Quarterly Summary Statistics are rounded to the nearest five.
3. The figures for 2006-07 are from February 2006 to January 2007 and these are the latest figures published available.

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many non-resident parents paid maintenance through the Child Support Agency only by deductions of up to £5 per week from benefits in each quarter since 2000-01. [145494]

Mr. Plaskitt: The administration of the Child Support Agency is a matter for the Chief Executive.

He will write to the hon. Member.

Letter from Stephen Geraghty, dated 25 June 2007:


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Number of cases, with a deduction from benefit in place, from February 2000 to March 2007
Quarter ending Cases with deduction from benefit as method of maintenance collection

February 2000

23,200

May 2000

22,600

August 2000

21,900

November 2000

21,400

February 2001

18,500

May 2001

17,600

August 2001

17,100

November 2001

16,500

February 2002

15,500

May 2002

15,300

August 2002

14,000

November 2002

13,700

December 2002-September 2004

(3 )n/a

December 2004

49,200

March 2005

54,600

June 2005

63,300

September 2005

71,100

December 2005

79,800

March 2006

90,900

June 2006

98,000

September 2006

103,100

December 2006

106,600

March 2007

113,200

Notes:
1. Numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.
2. The data in the table covers those old-scheme cases with either a Full Maintenance Assessment or an Interim Maintenance Assessment; plus those new-scheme cases with either a Full Maintenance Calculation, or a Default Maintenance Decision. New-scheme cases being processed clerically are excluded from this analysis.
3. Robust management information covering the period December 2002 to September 2004 is not available.

Mr. Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps his Department is taking to improve the child maintenance and support arrangements for parents with responsibility for care in situations where the non-resident parent is unemployed and is unable to provide full maintenance payments. [145514]

Mr. Plaskitt: 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, dated 25 June 2007:


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Children: Poverty

Mr. Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many children were in households below (a) 60 per cent., (b) 50 per cent., (c) 40 per cent., (d) 30 per cent., (e) 20 per cent. and (f) 10 per cent. of median income in each year since 1994-95, broken down by (i) working and non-working households and (ii) household type. [135355]

Mr. Jim Murphy [holding answer 2 May 2007]: Figures on the 30 per cent. of median income threshold and any lower thresholds are not statistically robust as the sample sizes are too small.

The available information is in the following tables.

Table 1: Number of children living in households below 60 per cent. of median income, by working/not working households, before housing costs
Million
Working households Non-working households

1994-95

1.3

1.9

1995-96

1.2

1.8

1996-97

1.4

2.0

1997-98

1.6

1.9

1998-99

1.5

1.8

1999-2000

1.5

1.7

2000-01

1.3

1.6

2001-02

1.4

1.6

2002-03

1.4

1.6

2003-04

1.3

1.5

2004-05

1.3

1.4

2005-06

1.4

1.4



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Table 2: Number of children living in households below 60 per cent. of median income, by type of household, before housing costs
Million
Lone parent Couple
In full-time work In part-time work Not working One or more full-time self-employed Both in full-time work One or more in full-time work, one in part-time work One in full-time, one not working One or more in part-time work only Both not in work

1994-95

(1)

0.1

1.0

0.5

(1)

0.1

0.4

0.2

0.9

1995-96

(1)

0.1

0.9

0.4

(1)

0.1

0.4

0.2

0.9

1996-97

(1)

0.1

1.1

0.3

(1)

0.1

0.5

0.3

0.8

1997-98

(1)

0.2

1.2

0.4

(1)

0.1

0.5

0.3

0.7

1998-99

(1)

0.2

1.1

0.4

(1)

0.1

0.5

0.3

0.7

1999-2000

0.1

0.2

1.2

0.4

(1)

0.1

0.5

0.3

0.6

2000-01

(1)

0.1

1.1

0.3

(1)

0.1

0.4

0.3

0.5

2001-02

0.1

0.2

1.0

0.3

(1)

0.1

0.4

0.3

0.5

2002-03

0.1

0.2

1.0

0.3

(1)

0.1

0.4

0.3

0.6

2003-04

(1)

0.2

1.0

0.3

(1)

0.1

0.4

0.3

0.5

2004-05

0.1

0.2

0.9

0.4

(1)

0.1

0.3

0.2

0.5

2005-06

(1)

0.2

0.9

0.4

(1)

0.1

0.4

0.3

0.5


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