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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

I apologise for putting the amendment to the wrong clause. Like the noble Baroness and the Minister, I am 100 per cent in favour of netting off in the special examples given by the Minister and in the notes on the clauses. I think I must have private discussions with the Minister or, perhaps, his officials. It really depends on how the current one-seventh/half relationships work. If they work as they could, and as we were earlier told that it is possible to change a maintenance arrangement in a week, that is one thing; if they are annualised, as I think the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, suggested in her helpful critique of what I have just said, that is another. Perhaps there is a genuine point here, and there could usefully be further thought upon it.