Child Maintenance

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Security – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 March 1991.

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Photo of Michael Jack Michael Jack , Fylde 12:00, 4 March 1991

The proportion will vary according to the individual circumstances of each case. However, in most cases maintenance payments will represent no more than about a quarter—at most a third—of an absent parent's net income and even less of gross income—nearer one fifth.