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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 25 June 2025
Debate
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillContribution
I very gently remind him that, when he stood at this Dispatch Box last year and proposed the previous Government’s much broader version of this, he did so when the Bill had not even been looked at in Committee in the Commons. There was no requirement even to produce a code of practice. This Government have bent over backwards to engage and to offer as much support and transparency as possible. I ask him not to ask for things that he must know are simply not possible, given that we are taking a very similar approach to how the previous Government tried to operationalise this. Having got that off my chest, I will press on to answer some of the other questions a little better.
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