Clause 31
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
10:30 am
Anne McGuire (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Minister for Disabled People), Department for Work and Pensions; Stirling, Labour)
In the light of the hon. Gentleman’s comments, I am pleased to reaffirm what I said in the earlier debate. Where we extinguish arrears of maintenance, the existing child support legislation, which already safeguards the interests of the child, will obviously be part of that decision. What underpins this Bill is the welfare of the children. I thank the hon. Gentleman for agreeing in advance of that reaffirmation to withdraw his amendment.