Obviously it is sensible for the commission's staff to retain their status as civil servants, but why on earth were the Government ever thinking of taking it away from them? And why is the commission to be a Crown body rather than an executive agency, which is what it was in the first place? The Government seem to have gone around in a circle.
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Oliver Heald
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 3 June 2008.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill.
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