Number of active international child maintenance cases: FOI release
- Published
- 30 July 2019
- Part of
- Children and families, Public sector
- FOI reference
- FOI/201900002442
- Date received
- 28 June 2019
- Date responded
- 25 July 2019
Information request and response under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.
Information requested
How many international child maintenance cases there per year from 2010 - 2019. After clarification: how many active cases there are per year.
Response
The statistics in the table below provide figures for the number of international maintenance cases which were active at the start of each year, received in each year, closed in each year and active at the end of the year.
| Year | Number of active cases at start of year |
New cases during year | Cases closed during year | Active cases at end of year |
| 2010 |
98 | 31 | 79 | 50 |
| 2011 | 50 | 62 | 50 | 62 |
| 2012 | 62 | 52 | 73 | 41 |
| 2013 | 41 | 57 | 12 | 86 |
| 2014 | 86 | 69 | 31 | 124 |
| 2015 | 124 | 75 | 32 | 167 |
| 2016 | 167 | 103 | 23 | 247 |
| 2017 | 247 | 121 | 12 | 356 |
| 2018 | 356 | 185 | 260 | 281 |
| 2019 (to 15/07/2019) | 281 | 199 | 41 | 439 |
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