Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill

My Lords, perhaps the noble Lord will allow me to intervene, as this is an important point. It is important that data channelled from one department to another for use in, in this case, child maintenance calculations is done through a formal, controlled process to ensure that the data are secure. I am not sure whether this was intended but I would be nervous if an individual seconded to the commission had a relationship with someone at HMRC and they could chat about a particular case on which they might have worked in the past. That would be a dangerous situation and, as I said, I am not sure whether it is what the noble Lord intended. We need to ensure that the gateways are secure and specific. I would need to check whether an HMRC secondee working in an appropriate area of the commission would be unable to access the data that came through that gateway. However, it has to be done on a formal basis; otherwise, we shall be in deep trouble.