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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

It depends on whether the limit of £40 applies only to those who remain within the CMEC system or to those who are making voluntary arrangements. How will one know and track that? The noble Lord is probably right. The person concerned will say, ““I am not going to pay any more than £40 because that’s all you’d get under the statutory system at any rate””. I would say that if I were in their position. I might be required to pay £60, but if I knew that, under the statutory system, the other party would receive only £40 and the other £20 would go to the taxman, I would say to them, ““Well, I am only going to give you £40. Under the voluntary system, you’d be no better off””. That is another way of keeping the pressure on and reducing the contributions that they may pay.