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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

My Lords, of course that is what we all hope for. I was rather slow on the uptake in answer to the interruption of the noble Baroness, Lady Hollis, about whether the mother was on benefit. The Bill changes that situation. I am interested in the future rather than the past. I said at the end of my opening remarks that I hoped that such a situation will not recur through the actions of the CSA. So far as concerns the Minister, I regret that we do not have 30 readings of a Bill rather than three. Over time he has moved his position, I note, just slightly on all this. He has now admitted—I am sure that I correctly took down his words—that shared care arrangements ““could”” discourage contact. Clearly, I cannot push him any further than he is prepared to go, but—