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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 16 June 2025
Debate
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillContribution
How will the promise of human intervention be exercised at the stage at which bank accounts are interrogated? That is done by an algorithm and the computer. It is only at the subsequent stage, when cases are thrown up, that there will human intervention. That is wrong; it is an extension of the state’s powers in a way that is totally unwarranted in relation to the scale of the benefits achieved by the exercise.
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