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 James Paice James Paice , South East Cambridgeshire 12:00, 4 March 1991

May I thank my hon. Friend for that answer and stress to him the importance that many people attach to the fact that parents, of whichever sex, cannot forgo the responsibilities of parenthood? Does my hon. Friend agree that the courts should have the power to attach whatever proportion of earnings is appropriate to support whatever family has been left behind by the absent parent?