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Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

My Lords, I am all for it being done on a formal basis but, as I said, the Answer received by my honourable friend gave the impression—perhaps it was not intended—that there was no contact at all. In other words, the secondee could not request the information and had to go through someone else in CMEC or the CSA. That cannot be the right way of proceeding. I may have read more into the Answer than was intended, but it occurred to me that it would not be unreasonable to raise the point with the Minister so that he could look at whether the activity that I have described and am fearful of is going on. He very kindly nods, so I assume that he will investigate that. On that basis, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendments Nos. 8 to 18 not moved.] Schedule 7 [Minor and consequential amendments]: