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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

That takes us back to a debate that we had a couple of days ago. Let us be clear that we want parents to have the choice. We want those who are currently in the system to have the choice whether to stay in it just as anybody else will have the choice. We had a philosophical debate about whether we were encouraging voluntary arrangements as a broad principle. I think that it is clear that that is where we are, but it is not inconsistent with making sure that those people who want and choose to go into the statutory system are fully supported in doing so. The mechanics by which they end up in the system are a secondary issue; the principle is that, on the basis of information and support, that is what people choose to do. We must do everything that we can to make sure that that is where they end up.