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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 16 June 2025

Debate

Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

Contribution

When I came into this job, I specifically said that I did not want to see that. The previous iteration by the previous Government would have allowed the Government to seek information of any kind from any kind of organisation on literally any benefit, for any purpose. We came in and limited it to only financial institutions and only information about benefits, narrowing it down to only the specific purposes needed in this Bill.

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