Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics

The Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission is responsible for the child maintenance system in Great Britain. The Commission assumed responsibility for the Child Support Agency (CSA) from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on 1 November 2008.

The Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics (QSS) are available using the links below. These publications, produced in conjunction with DWP Information Directorate on behalf of the Commission, contain the most up-to-date tables and breakdowns on the CSA’s two existing statutory child maintenance schemes. The QSS are published according to arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

The data covers the period both before and after the Commission assumed responsibility for the CSA. The data also covers the period both before and after the removal of the compulsion on parents with care who are claiming benefits to use the CSA to collect or arrange maintenance payments. The change, which came into force on October 27th 2008, affected around 400,000 CSA clients who can now choose to make private maintenance arrangements with the non-resident parent.

Previous QSS can be found on the DWP site.

The Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics are available using the links below.

• June 2010
• March 2010
• December 2009
• September 2009
• June 2009
• March 2009
• December 2008

QSS publications from September 2009 are in a revised format and take account of the outcomes of an external consultation on revising the summary.