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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

I am extremely grateful, first, to the noble Lord, Lord Addington, for damning my amendment with what I might describe as faint praise and then to have the faint praise made slightly brighter by the Minister. Many years ago, I inherited a pair of ivory-backed hair brushes, which were beginning to lose their bristles. It looks to me as though my amendment has lost a few bristles in the Minister’s consideration. Having said that, I am well aware—as I was when I tabled the amendment—that what I am proposing as a whole goes somewhat in the direction of overkill. I am glad that the Minister has now put on the record that he will refine this into a sensible affirmative first provision for Clauses 43 and 44. Is that right?