Clause 29
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
4:00 pm
Andrew Selous (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; South West Bedfordshire, Conservative)
I am grateful to hear the Minister’s reassurances, which I accept at face value. I am just puzzled why this matter should be dealt with in regulation rather than in the Bill. It has been said to me, so I will say it to her, that dealing with it in regulation could make it easier at a later stage to revoke or water down the obligation to seek the parent with care’s permission. If she addresses that point, I will be fully satisfied.