§ Earl Russellasked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to paragraphs 3–7 of the Comptroller and Auditor-General's report on the Child Support Agency (PAC 141), what action, if any, they intend to take on interim maintenance assessments which cannot be legally enforced because they have been given incorrect effective dates.
§ Lord Mackay of ArdbrecknishThe Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1995, which enable the correction of interim maintenance assessments imposed with incorrect effective dates, came into force on 16 February 1995. The Child Support Agency is using this legislation to correct affected cases.