Clause 17
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
6:30 pm
Danny Alexander (Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Work & Pensions; Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Liberal Democrat)
Will the Minister place the information that he has just given, and from which he has quoted excerpts, in full in the Library? His figures differ significantly from those that were given to the Select Committee by the Secretary of State and published in the report on page 37, which would suggest that reducing the threshold from 25 per cent. to 10 per cent. for downward adjustments only would lead to 7 per cent. more cases coming through the system. The totals in the report do not match the ones that he has given. Could he provide the information and set the record straight on how the two sets of figures are consistent with each other? If he could make that clear, I would be grateful.