Schedule 4
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
5:45 pm
John Penrose (Weston-Super-Mare, Conservative)
Does the Minister accept that although there might not have been a huge consensus on what must be done to change it, it is not necessarily true that the current system avoids the problems that he has described? The system of day counting and continual record keeping both is unwieldy in itself and creates the sort of unintentional and unwanted frictional links between access and maintenance that he rightly says we want to avoid if we can. The current system is not perfect by any means.