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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 June 2025

Debate

Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

Contribution

96: Schedule 4, page 101, line 15, leave out from beginning to end of line 24 and insert— “Material subject to legal privilege 10 Nothing in this Schedule confers power to— (a) require any person to provide information, or(b) seize, remove, take a copy of or otherwise record anything,in respect of which a claim to confidentiality of communications could be maintained in legal proceedings.”Member’s explanatory statement This amendment, together with my other amendments to Schedule 4, simplifies the drafting of new Schedule 3ZD to the Social Security Administration Act 1992 by creating a single prohibition on the seizure etc of information subject to legal privilege.

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