Part of Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:00 pm on 17 July 2007.
Janet Allbeson: Yes. The Department and the agency have thought quite hard about their enforcement powers and whether or not they are effective. The idea of having routine DEOs has been explored quite a lot already. It is a very good idea and we should just get on with it. In the United States, they call it “set and forget.” You provide an easy way of payment right from the start—everyone does it and why not? If we are looking into getting money from the bank accounts of self-employed people where you cannot do a DEO, why not try it and see if it works?