Clause 3
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
3:15 pm
James Plaskitt (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions; Warwick and Leamington, Labour)
Let me see whether I can reassure the hon. Gentleman. In a similar way to the scheme that is currently operated by the Department, the commission will administer a compensation scheme for cases of maladministration. It will provide recompense when commission error has an adverse effect on the lives of our customers. That is standard practice for a non-departmental public body of that type, and it can be administered by the commission as being incidental to its functions, without the need for the specific provision that he seeks.