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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

In withdrawing the amendment, I certainly agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, that there are very few effective sanctions for many of the people whom we have been talking about and therefore I say to the noble Lord, Lord Kirkwood, that it is a great mistake to do away with any of them. I may be straying into the next group of amendments by saying this, but that is a different matter from saying that the way in which the sanctions are triggered is necessarily correct in the Bill. However, the sanctions most certainly should be used. I accept some of the points made by the Minister. I recognise that buried somewhere in the Bill is the fact that there will be no application for the removal of a driving licence if it would affect an individual’s earning capacity. But there are other sanctions that could affect earning capacity, which is why we tabled the amendment. I shall look carefully at what the Minister has said in response. The positive point made by the Minister was that it is quite right that CMEC should engage with the parent with care. What he apparently does not accept is that the parent with care should trigger that engagement. I must ask why not. We are not moving at the pace of an E-type Jaguar today, so perhaps the noble Lord would like to consider the question and come back to me in writing.