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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

A thought has just struck me as a result of the noble Lord’s thoughtful remarks about the non-resident parent. If the non-resident parent is on benefit, he is known to the CSA. Even if he moves away, it has a fair chance of tracking him through the previous employer, the this, the that and the other. Obviously, in theory, there is access to HMT records. However, let us suppose that there has been a two or three-year voluntary agreement during which time CMAC has had no contact with the non-resident parent, and that then he moves away and the mother comes to CMAC saying, ““I now want to come into the statutory system””. How easy will it be for CMAC to get hold of him?