Statistics from the Child Support Agency (CSA) show the overall performance gains achieved since 2006 continue to be sustained.
More than £1,146m in maintenance was collected or arranged in 2010, up from £1,135m in the previous year. Total uncollected arrears, accumulated over the entire 17-year lifetime of the Agency, remained stable at around £3,787m.
The figures also reveal that nearly 700 properties owned by parents with child maintenance debts have been targeted for possible possession and sale to pay off their arrears. The Agency has deployed new enforcement powers and increased its use of existing legal processes in order to keep child maintenance payments moving.
