Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
10:47 am
Andrew Selous (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; South West Bedfordshire, Conservative)
I start by asking the Ministers why we do not have draft regulations, unlike the Welfare Reform Bill? We have a Prime Minister committed to a new environment of open parliamentary scrutiny, but we are considering the broad architecture with very few details laid out.
Given the previous difficulties that the CSA has had—hon. Members on both sides of the House are extremely worried about this—why was the Bill not brought forward at the same time as the regulations so that we could have scrutiny leading to possible amendment? That will not be possible when the draft regulations come in. When the regulations come in by statutory instrument, they can be only accepted or rejected.