Member

To conclude, this Bill rightly equips the state to recover public money and respond to fraud, but our job in this Committee is to ensure that those powers are not just powerful but proportionate; that they are not only swift but fair; and that those affected by them, especially the most vulnerable, can have confidence that decisions are made with care, with oversight and with due regard to context and consequence. That is what I believe these amendments seek to achieve, so I commend the noble Lord on bringing them forward and urge the Government to consider them very seriously. They would improve the Bill; uphold the principles that we have championed in Committee; and strengthen the legitimacy of the enforcement regime that this legislation clearly seeks to build.