Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
10:47 am
Lord McKenzie: We sought to align the new rate on gross income so that the outcome mirrored as closely as possible the outcome that someone in the same circumstances would have when entering the system at present. We tried to align those so that broadly the same maintenance obligation would come from those two calculations. The rates are different to those in the White Paper because, frankly, we refined them as we conducted more detailed work on the scale of incomes, on what the outcome would be under the current system and on what rates we needed to apply to ensure that the gross basis had the same outcome.