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Baroness Deech (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 10 June 2026

Debate

Best Start Family Hubs

Contribution

My Lords, it is admirable that the Minister wants to lift children out of poverty. Why then has she not enthusiastically accepted the recommendations of the Public Services Committee about reforming the Child Maintenance Service, which is currently letting hundreds of thousands of fathers get away with paying nothing, hiding their assets and not having their obligations enforced, when they have a legal and moral responsibility to support their children? This has gone on for years. She has the power to move this forward.

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