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Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 June 2025

Debate

Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill

Contribution

My Lords, I see the first amendment in this group as a purely probing amendment to try to clarify matters; I trust and have every hope that, in the debates on the Bill, they will be clarified. I ask the mover of Amendment 25 and the Minister to clarify something. I wonder about the change to the end of the amendment, which says “awarded by a court or tribunal in relation to costs”. I would have thought that that was covered already under Clause 13(2)(b)(i), which refers to “costs that are awarded by a court or tribunal on or in relation to a claim for a recoverable amount”; I agree with that. Then there is sub-paragraph (ii), which is about the Minister exercising their powers. Is that not covered by paragraph (b)(i) without adding it to (b)(ii)? This is a purely technical point because I think that it is there already.

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