§ Mr. Bishopasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will review the practice whereby women awarded maintenance payments by a court following separation or divorce have to go personally to collect the money; and if he will arrange to pay such maintenance through his Department or through the Post Office and collect the same from the payee.
§ Mr. MaudlingI am reviewing the arrangements for paying maintenance through the magistrates' courts. But I do not have in mind proposals of the kind envisaged in the second part of the Question.