My Lords, when I was preparing to ask this question, my initial thought was that I might quote the House of Commons Select Committee report calling the CSA a failing organisation that is in crisis, but I am afraid that I am not as brave as my acting leader in the other place.

The noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, put her finger on a serious point by mentioning the Revenue. Does the Minister accept, as the Prime Minister said, that the CSA has lost the confidence of the public, its basic structural problems remain, it is not properly suited to carry out its task, and the handing over of its functions to the Revenue is long overdue?