Clause 2
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
3:00 pm
Andrew Selous (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; South West Bedfordshire, Conservative)
I listened carefully to the Minister and found his response more convincing than some of the responses he has given me this afternoon. I intend to ask leave to withdraw the amendment, but I say to him in passing that CMEC’s enforcement will have to be a lot better than the CSA’s has been. There are massive enforcement clauses, which we are coming to, but the Minister’s presumption will only work and there will only be an increase in voluntary arrangements if parents know that the CMEC scheme has some teeth and will be applied meaningfully. On that basis, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.