Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 16 March 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 10 January 2006, Official Report, column 611W, on the Child Support Agency, what targets are in place for the processing of the backlog of applications.
The administration of the Child Support Agency is the matter for the chief executive. He will write to the hon. Member with the information requested.
Letter from Stephen Geraghty
In reply to your recent Parliamentary Question about the Child Support Agency, the Secretary of State promised a substantive reply from the Chief Executive.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of the 10th January 2006
The Child Support Agency is making every effort to reduce the backlog of applications.
Between January and December 2005, the number of outstanding un-cleared potential applications across both the old and the new schemes fell by 10 per cent, from over 362,000 to 327,000 (figures rounded to the nearest thousand).
Volumes of uncleared new scheme applications have stabilised and are no longer growing. Indeed, they fell by 2 per cent. between April and December 2005, standing at 259,000 at the end of the period.
In the Operational Improvement Plan announced by the Secretary of State on 9th February 2006, the Agency set itself the target of reducing the backlog of applications to the point where, by March 2009, 80% of applications will be cleared within 12 weeks and there will be no backlog in this area.
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