HC Deb 06 May 1998 vol 311 c426W
Mr. Hinchliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if she will arrange for a constituent (CSA reference 1006328122) to meet senior officials of the Child Support Agency, in Falkirk, in order to conclude outstanding disagreements over the handling of his case. [39416]

Mr. Keith Bradley

One of our key aims for the Child Support Agency is to ensure that more absent parents pay the maintenance they owe. The regular payment of maintenance is central to our strategy as recognition of fathers' continuing responsibilities to their children; to help lone mothers move off income support into work; and to get more money to children in low income working families.

Whenever it is appropriate the Child Support Agency offers local interviews to resolve customers' difficulties, and restructuring by the Agency will allow it to offer significantly more face to face contact in a greater range of locations.

For reasons of confidentiality for both the absent parent and the parent with care, the Chief Executive of the Child Support Agency, Mrs. Faith Boardman, will write to the hon. Member separately.