Schedule 6
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
11:00 am
Mark Harper (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; Forest of Dean, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 120, in schedule 6, page 69, line 8, at end insert—
‘5A (1) This paragraph applies to information which is held for the purposes of Court proceedings in which the non-resident parent is a party—
(a) by the Court, or
(b) by a person providing services to the Court.
(2) Information to which this paragraph applies may be supplied—
(a) to the Commission, or
(b) to a person providing services to the Commission, for use for the purposes of functions relating to child support.’.
The amendment is relatively simple. It would make the schedule more comprehensive. It already covers sharing information between the commission and a range of Departments, but it omits allowing the commission to receive information from a court if it holds information for the purposes of child support which would be useful to the commission. The amendment would widen the scope a little to allow a court to share with the commission information that it held about an action to which the non-resident parent was party. We think that that would be a helpful provision which does not appear to be included at present.