Child Support Agency

HC Deb 11 January 1996 vol 269 c324W

Ms Lynne

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what has been the amount of down time recorded for the Child Support Agency's operational accounting system in each months since April 1993. [4077]

Mr. Andrew Mitchell

The information is not available in the format requested. The available information is in the table.

Period	Service availability percentage
3 August 1994–9 August 1994	99.8
15 August 1994–21 August 1994	97.6
28 August 1994–4 September 1994	99.6
5 September 1994–11 September 1994	99.6
12 September 1994–18 September 1994	99.9
19 September 1994–25 September 1994	99.6
14 November 1994–20 November 1994	99.6
28 November 1994–4 December 1994	99.6
9 January 1995–15 January 1995	99.2
6 March 1995–12 March 1995	99.7
27 March 1995–2 April 1995	99.8
12 June 1995–18 June 1995	99.7
26 June 1995–2 July 1995	98.9
31 July 1995–6 August 1995	99.6
7 August 1995–13 August 1995	99.7
14 August 1995–20 August 1995	99.8
6 November 1995–12 November 1995	99.7

The operation accounting system went live on 7 June 1994.