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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

The presumption is that each of the parents involved has a choice. In the first case, if there is a non-resident parent and a parent with care, if neither wants to stay in the statutory system, that arrangement does not have to stay in the statutory system. Similarly for the second case—I am not sure whether we are talking about a common NRP or a common PWC—where there is a common NRP. If, for that arrangement, both want to be out of the system, both would be in the voluntary system; if one of them chooses to be in the statutory system, they will be in the statutory system. There is nothing to preclude a common NRP having a voluntary arrangement in respect of one relationship and a statutory arrangement in respect of a second relationship. I know that that raises questions about how the arithmetic works. I can summarise it on the assumption that they are both in the statutory system, although the first case in the voluntary system would not be adjusted for a change in the arithmetic. If that became unaffordable, presumably a parent would choose to opt in to the statutory system.