APPENDIX
USE OF THE POWER GRANTED BY SECTION 82
OF THE WELFARE REFORM AND PENSIONS ACT 1999: RESPONSE TO THE 2ND
REPORT OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY COMMITTEE
I wrote to you on 23 February, enclosing a copy of
the redrafted report on the power to incur expenditure on child
support. Your Committee subsequently considered the Report and
published its response on 21 March. The Report itself was laid
before the House on 13 March, was debated in Standing Committee
and approved by the House on 11 April.
I am pleased by the response contained in the Committee's
Second Report. I am sure that the Committee's statement played
an important part in assuring the House in the initial use of
this procedure. The important thing is that we now have Parliamentary
authority to get started on the detailed work that will make a
reality of child support reform.
Alistair Darling
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