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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

If the noble Lord’s question was how many cases have not been transferred from the first scheme to the—we call it the ““new scheme””, but we will have to get away from that term now that there is a third scheme—current scheme, the answer is very few. I do not have the absolute number, because we said that we would transfer cases only when the new IT systems could cope with that. We know that they have not been able to. Inevitably, cases are drawn across into the current scheme when they are linked under the sort of arrangements that we have been talking about. I have an absolute figure. There are currently 443,680 cases maintained on CSCS—the original scheme. Subject to what happens with linkages in the interim, those cases will remain on that scheme until they come across into the new scheme.