Schedule 7
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
12:45 pm
Paul Rowen (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; Rochdale, Liberal Democrat)
Does the Minister not accept that in circumstances in which there has been a lengthy battle to reach agreement on payment, 12 months is actually quite a short period? What the parent with care and the child need is some form of stability. That 12-month agreement does not give them long. There may have been a turbulent time in the courts up until that period, but an agreement has been made and a minute of agreement is in force, yet 12 months later everything is up in the air.