Clause 14
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
6:00 pm
Mark Harper (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; Forest of Dean, Conservative)
I want to make two brief points. The first concerns transparency, which we have already debated at length, so I shall not revisit the arguments. How does the Minister intend to publish the information when the Secretary of State makes a scheme of transfer? Will it be made available by the commission or the Minister, or placed in the Library of the House? What has he in mind from a transparency point of view?
My other question is on subsection (5). That refers to the certificate confirming the transfer to be given by the Secretary of State, whereas the explanatory notes say that the certificate will be given by the commission. I suspect that it should, indeed, be the Secretary of State, and it would be helpful if the Minister would clarify that.