Member

Employers should be treated as partners, not instruments, and no one should live under the shadow of enforcement indefinitely. These are not radical demands but hallmarks of good lawmaking and they are essential to ensuring that the Bill delivers not just recovery of funds but public trust in the fairness and transparency of the system that enforces it. Legislation that is felt to be clear, proportionate and fair is more likely to succeed in its aims. I hope that the Minister will take these proposals in the constructive spirit in which they are offered and consider how they might be incorporated to improve the Bill’s architecture. These are amendments that would strengthen this legislation and I commend them to the Committee. But, for now, I will withdraw the amendment.