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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

My Lords, is the Minister saying that in practice there will be a level playing field because each lone parent, before they make the decision on which route to go—voluntary or statutory—will have not only initiated but received contact from the information and advice service, so that the choice of which route they go down will be an informed one, on the basis of the advice being given by the Government? If so, given that so much of this could be voluntary, how will the Government know how to get hold of these parents?