Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

My Lords, I understand what the noble Lord is saying and recognise his ongoing concerns about the IT systems. I agree that it is important that those systems are right. The commission will inevitably inherit the current systems as improved by PR1. The fact that we resist being specific on the process and detail of the transition within a year of the passing of this Act does not mean that there will be an absence of reporting in the interim. The noble Lord will be aware that Clause 9 requires an annual report to be made by the commission to the Secretary of State. There will be a lot of detail in that. As the noble Lord recognises, the framework agreement which will govern the NDPB will contain targets and the need to report progress in all these areas, so there will not be a vacuum in which the commission will be left to its own devices without a reporting process. However, we resist reporting on the specifics of this process within a year because it is complicated and it is hugely important that we get it right.