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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

Does not my noble friend agree that one difficulty with the CSA, unlike other fields where debt is owed, is that you cannot go for a lot of conventional remedies to collect debt—for example, naming and shaming—precisely because there are named and known children involved? It is quite hard to get enforcement procedures that bear on the parent when he does not have property but that do not stigmatise the child. With a lot of debt collection, you can use an element of naming and shaming, public display and so on. It is precisely to protect the children that you cannot do that in this case, which is why we are short of penalties. That is why my noble friend is right to say that, although the provisions are there as a last resort, they need to be there.