Thanks Andrew. I've paid in to the system for nearly 20 years and I'm not looking to avoid paying - I will genuinely be out of the country with the occasional visit to France. My son will be visiting his father, so cover is more important for him.
I am just not sure, that while I am paying my cotisations to URSAAF, that they have been paying the RSI or if I should have contacted them seperately - I'd assumed that it was the same as when I was micro years ago, when everything was paid through the URSAAF.