Child Maintenance (Assessment of Parents' Income) Ten Minute Rule Bill

Ten minute rule motion. I beg to move that these be given to bring in

a Bill to equalise the assessment and enforcement of child maintenance

arrangements of children of self-employed parents with that of

other employed parents. I do welcome the great interest of an attendance

of Honourable members for my Bill, but feel like something of a filler

in the Prime Minister's San Mitch. The Honourable members attention

will be focused on the next motion rather than my Bill, however many

parents have waited all too long for a fairer child maintenance for their

children and will not let a general election get in the way of their

campaign. The campaign message at the heart of my Bill, to use the

Prime Minister pot pardons, is that we needed help maintenance service

that will work for everyone, not just a privileged few. This issue.

The. Stop the clock, please. I appreciate the interest and other

matters, but the subject matter of this Bill is of very great

importance to huge numbers of parents and children around the

country and I think it is, to put it mildly, unseemly that while the

honourable gentleman is speaking about his Bill, there are a number

of animated private conversations taking place, including those being

conducted by normally immensely courteous members of the house. If

the house could settle down and listen to the eloquence of the

honourable gentleman, we would all be grateful. Of great and broadens

and interests of the public. It is also a great cross-party one. From

the time of the Thatcher Government, recognising the principle that all

Prince Harry continued responsibility to reasonably

contributed children's upkeep. Parents in need of child maintenance

who have nowhere else to turn. It must cater for all children,

including those whose parents are self-employed with complex financial

affairs. My interest in this issue has arisen from my constituent

Elizabeth who is in attendance today. As well as four other equally

brave women, super mums, and there will be other like-minded women who

have come to surgeries. Elizabeth, Melissa, JoAnn, Sue and Kate have

religiously pursued the cases and could read the text but on how

parents good... They're been removed in replacement to the MS processors.

It is useful to have read me to introduce this Bill and my

honourable friend with the Work and Pensions select committee that an

enquiry into the CMS which is due to report imminently. If you are a

child whose nonresident parent is up and Plaid Cymru your risk of being

financially disadvantaged convert HL twos nonresident parent is employed.

Nonresidents other employed parents are being indulged by the CMS. The

Government 's defence to discharge of injustice is that closing the

loopholes which enables such child maintenance avoidance is, I quote,

expensive and time component to do so. -- time-consuming. The

Government does not take such a relaxed attitude to those who avoid

paying benefits taxes. An annual budget of ?4 billion, this money

feels to get a grip of nonresident parents who hide their income from

the CMS by exploiting legal loopholes. It is welcome that the

DWP has beefed up its financial investigations unit to a 50 strong

team and good that the Minister for world for a delivery who is here

today to listen said to be working pensions select committee that the

apparatus of the bank accounts and tax records and seek to clarify

where things are at not adding up. -- have powers to look at bank

accounts. Children should not be paying the price of the ongoing

injustice of unpaid child maintenance. Fewer than half of

eligible children do not receive anything at all. Elizabeth's Sun is

one of those whose should not be paying for the ?40,000 price of what

he is owed over six years in jail maintenance. Simply because his

father has a clever accountant who can help hide his African non-in

comparing accounts businesses and property. This maintenance liability

would not have been uncovered without the determination of his

mother taking the case through to tribunal hearings and relying on the

old rule which would allow for assets to be looked at. They

eventually revealed that the other parent is assets valuing the lot

from the sale of businesses and inheritance and found that he could

regularly pacey as a maintenance to support their teenage son. The

problem may build six resolvers that under the 2012 CMS scheme, the same

parent is held to have a nil child maintenance and is liability. It was

then at 40,000, it would now be nil. Being based largely on gross taxable

income figures are provided by the HMI C. This model, I accept, works

with the majority of straightforward cases were a paying parent pot

school income is to play by claimant. It works as well with the

paying parent takes more in other forms. It is not what at all when

the income does not show up at HMR IC. There are some nonresident

parents who support their lifestyle from income not from income at all.

For example from substantial assets from capital gains, property

transactions. Such paying parents have no child maintenance liability

at all. Parents are now left to a limited child maintenance support

system which may be cheaper and more efficient for a simple cases, but

for more complex cases this speak and weeks to injustice. This

injustice is compounded by the 2012 rules not only abolishing the

grounds to change assessments, but also cutting of the avenue for

redress through the courts. The Government's response was that the

assets ground for a variation proved difficult to administer and

difficult for our clients understand. What has proved

difficult for my constituent Elizabeth is to obtain justice for

the maintenance for her son and what is difficult for Elizabeth

understand is why the state has chosen to prioritise its own

administrative convenience of the interest of her child. The enquiry

into this issue has heard evidence from parents and other nonresident

parents with a lifestyle that does not matter to quote income. The CMS

advisers will go off to the HMR IC and they will be left in limbo

because nonresident parents are not committing tax fraud, but are

avoiding child maintenance because they can hide behind their self

implied status. The organiser finances in a tax avoidance manner.

One mother told a website how it CMS advised her to accept a ?100 payment

from her ex-husband had yourself implied it was the best he could

hope for, regardless of evidence that he was capable of paying more,

hadith is therefore business, multiple properties and more

physical assets than you could imagine. Gingerbread's Chief

Executive said Britain was my child maintenance system is concluded that

into a culture where to meet parents think it is optional rather than

obligatory to play there to help's maintenance. It cannot be right that

someone can avoid paying child maintenance because his relevant tax

year removed is liability. Why did it remit is liability? Because in

that year he bought a truck. The CMS should not allow the financial

interests of a truck to come before a child. The state should not be an

accessory to child maintenance avoidance. The Government has its

eye on the self-employed to make the tax system work for everyone and

issued include the child maintenance system as well. My Bill will reform

the CMS to correct its current failures and cater for children,

company directors and those with private financial affairs. A

notional income could be assumed were a paying parent pot Webster was

inconsistent with income and that should be made available within the

CMS scheme. The new variation ground should be made available whereby a

fair rate of insight should be assumed from an asset where it is

capable of producing a reasonable level of return were a paying parent

has chosen to recall such an income without good reason, bearing in mind

there are maintenance responsibilities for the children.

The Bill were also grab the court jurisdiction with the nonresident

parent has the assets and the CMS is unable or incapable of determining

the child maintenance support. Whilst my Bill comes at the very end

of this Parliament, it may just help prompt the spring report setting out

the 30 month review into CMS. Back in 2012, a Lloyd said we will make

clear our intent is including a specific review. No doubt that will

include the impact on families of the ?20 fee which my Bill will seek

to exempt. The campaign of single families has that the child

maintenance can lift a fifth appearance on low incomes out of

poverty. The lack of child maintenance should be another

burning injustice for the Government to tackle. Given this Bill is

probably the least likely ever to become law in this parliamentary

session, there is every point in highlighting on behalf of

constituents and important for their children the unfairness of it. This

may be an early bid for the manifesto, it may also be an early

public bid to be included in the next Queen 's speech, either way I

look forward to delivering social justice with improved hell-bent on a

system for all. -- tailed maintenance. As many as are of the

opinion, say "aye". To the contrary, "no". I think the Ayes have it. Who

will prepare and bring in the Bill? Child maintenance assessment of

parent pot income Bill. Second reading what today? The 12th of May

I suppose. I shall delete the last two words uttered. 12th of May.