§ Ms OsborneTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) how many parents with care who are eligible for maintenance payments through the Child Support Agency receive the Working Families Tax Credit; [149850]
(2) how many parents with care in receipt of maintenance payments through the Child Support Agency are non-resident parents who are liable to pay maintenance for children of previous relationships. [149851]
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§ Angela EagleThe information Is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is as follows.
There are 234,000 parents with care with a current full maintenance assessment who are receiving the Working Families Tax Credit. This represents around 24 per cent. of all such parents with care on the Child Support Agency's books.
Notes:1. Information on the number of parents with care who are also non-resident parents is not available since there is no facility on the existing child support computer system for linking data in this way.2. Figures are taken from 5 per cent. scan of the Child Support Computer System and are rounded to the nearest hundred.Source:Child Support Agency Quarterly Summary of Statistics—August 2000, Department of Social Security Information Centre, Analytical Services Division.