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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

My understanding is that these matters will be dealt with on an individual case-by-case basis. I cannot in all honesty say to the noble Lord that there may be no circumstances where you get to some sort of residual pot—we just do not know what will happen operationally—but the intention is to look at them on a case-by-case basis, especially if they are interim assessments possibly to generate a negotiation. But always it will require the parent with care’s consent before debt is written off.