HC Deb 13 March 1996 vol 273 cc645-6W
Mr. Jon Owen Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security (1) what factors underlay his decision to omit the absent parent's right to a review in the new drafting of the Child support Agency regulations on clean-break settlements; [17738]

(2) what action he is taking to reinstate absent parents' rights to review when they have applied for clean-break settlements to be taken into account in Child support Agency maintenance calculations. [17737]

Mr. Andrew Mitchell

There is nothing in the regulations introduced in April 1995 relating to property and capital settlements which affects an absent parent's normal review rights.