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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

The Minister is being generous and I hear myself shouting at him when I do not mean to. I am told that the key reason for the change from where we were previously—an NDPB in which everyone did the calculations and the policy arrangements on the basis of that; and then suddenly, without any explanation, it changed—was the fact that someone had forgotten to pay the VAT. I understand the technicalities of VAT; the Minister will know better than I do that it is dealt with by internal government transfer, so it does not add up to a big row of beans. But if the status of this body changed at this late stage for that reason, it demonstrates incompetence.