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I am sure that the Minister will use expedition as the reason for there being no judicial authorisation in the Bill. As we keep hearing, you want to recover debts as quickly as possible and the courts are just so slow, but would it not also be expeditious to reclaim money in the context of those other framework examples that I have used? Yet those orders are made only by a court on application—why is that? It allows an independent court to consider all the circumstances of the case, which is important as it could be that an overpayment in this instance is made due to an error of the state. Just to remind ourselves, alarmingly, statistics show that 70% of appeals against DWP PIP decisions were upheld, highlighting systemic flaws that judicial scrutiny could detect and correct.