My hon. Friend makes his case with his characteristic understatement. The Minister has been very courteous, but the reasoning behind any prospective change in three years' time remains distinctly opaque. Given that any change would be announced—under the affirmative procedure, admittedly—only to a small Committee sitting upstairs, of which most Members of Parliament, let alone most members of the public, would be entirely oblivious, does my hon. Friend not think that the Government ought to state this afternoon on the Floor of the House what criteria would trigger a change?
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
Proceeding contribution from
John Bercow
(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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