Clause 15
Child Maintenance and Other Payments
10:30 am
Tim Boswell (Daventry, Conservative)
Does my hon. Friend agree that another important motive in the initiation of that structure was saving public funds by recovery from the parent without care? Can he advise the Committee, or hazard a guess, as to the amount of public money that ought to be recoverable and is not or, conversely, the amount that is scored in benefit and that is either reclaimed against individuals or is not eventually recovered from the parent without care?