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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 June 2025
Debate
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillContribution
It also seems that, yet once more, this is all about low-hanging fruit. Sophisticated fraudsters and organised criminals—who we can be sure are keeping a very close eye on this Committee and the Bill—are simply likely to use multiple accounts to keep their amounts under the threshold, or will use overseas accounts, thereby rendering the provision of the Bill useless, apart from punishing the most vulnerable for inadvertently breaching new bank rules.
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