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Child Maintenance Payments

Volume 457: debated on Monday 5 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (1) what discussions he has had with the (a) private and (b) voluntary sector on providing better access to information and guidance as proposed on page 31 of the White Paper “A new system of child maintenance”; (113541)

(2) what assessment he has made of the level of additional support that will be necessary to provide private and voluntary organisations appropriate information and guidance as proposed on page 33 of the White Paper “A new system of child maintenance”.

Following publication of the White Paper “A new system of child maintenance”, Ministers and officials have been meeting key organisations with specific expertise in the area of information and guidance.

As part of this process, we are assessing the likely level of resource required to deliver information and guidance.

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his assessment is of the levels of (a) delays in payments and (b) loss of child maintenance parents with care have experienced as a result of inaccurate maintenance assessments in each month over the last two years; and if he will make a statement. (122924)