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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

I am grateful to the hon. Member for Barnsley, West and Penistone (Mr. Clapham) for explaining the purpose of his amendments. He said that he might want to see graduated payments in relation to amendment No. 15, rather than such payments being identical to those paid to people with mesothelioma. Amendment No. 16 relates, certainly in part, to a debate that we had in Committee. The purpose of amendment No. 15 is to compensate a mesothelioma sufferer's dependant in the same way as the mesothelioma sufferer himself. I do not believe that the amendment is necessary because it would be highly unusual to compensate a dependant of someone with a disease exactly as if they themselves had the disease.