Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
10:30 am
Christopher Chope (Christchurch, Conservative)
Before we begin, I have a few preliminary announcements. Hon. Members may take off their jackets during Committee meetings, if they wish to do so. Hon. Members should please ensure that all electronic devices are switched off throughout our proceedings. There is a money resolution and a Ways and Means resolution in connection with the Bill, and both are available in the Room.
First, the Committee will consider the programme motion on the amendment paper, for which debate is limited to half an hour. We will then proceed to a motion to report written evidence, and then to a motion to permit the Committee to deliberate in private in advance of the oral evidence sessions. Assuming that the second motion is agreed, the Committee will move into private session. Once the Committee has deliberated, the witnesses and members of the public will be invited back into the room and our oral evidence session will commence.
I am afraid that members of the public who are present will be disrupted at the beginning, but I hope that it will not be too long before they can come back in and hear the oral evidence session. We will hear oral evidence this morning and this afternoon. On Thursday we will proceed to clause by clause scrutiny of the Bill.