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  Child Trust Funds Regulations
  
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  The majority of MPs voted to approve regulations amending the terms of the Child Trust Fund scheme. 
  
  The main changes, which came into effect in August 2010, were to:
  
  *  Reduce the payments made at birth from Â£250 to Â£50; with children of lower income families receiving an extra Â£50. 
  *  Stop the top-up paid at age seven
  
  In addition the regulations provided for annual payments to Child Trust Funds of disabled children to cease from the 5th April 2011.
  
  The text of the approved motion was:
  :That the draft [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/1894/made Child Trust Funds (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2010], which were laid before this House on 29 June, be approved.
  
  
  
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