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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

I am sorry to take up the time of the Committee. Let us say that the non-resident parent is supporting two children at a net level of 20 per cent of his income under one of the statutory schemes. He goes into a new relationship that produces one child. That would mean that his total contribution under the net formula would be 25 per cent. If the second family goes into the voluntary system, would that family get merely 5 per cent, the difference between the 20 per cent already going to the statutory family and the total net percentage required to support three children, which is 25 per cent? Would the statutory family remain unaffected at 20 per cent because the second family was in the voluntary system or, despite that, would there be a presumption that the 25 per cent total would be divided up pro rata, in which case the second family would get a little over 8 per cent? Which of those two would apply in the voluntary system, and what would be the case in the statutory system?