Schedule 4
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
6:30 pm
Andrew Selous (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; South West Bedfordshire, Conservative)
That is not the case. There is merit in amendment No. 83, and had the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey wanted to push it to a vote, I would have urged my hon. Friends to support him. If he chooses to reintroduce the amendment on Report, we may well do so.
New clause 15 would deal with another aspect of the problem: the rearrangement of financial affairs in such a way as to ensure the payment—legitimately—of a much smaller amount of child maintenance than should morally, and I should say, legally, be the case. They are separate, they go together, and I shall push the motion to a vote at the appropriate time.