Member

We are seeing the failure of not doing tests, impact assessments and thoroughly working out how things will work. Much more detailed work needs to go into a change of this enormity. This extraordinary power is ineffective and entirely disproportionate to the revenue the Government expect to raise via its use. The Government’s own estimate is that it will get back less than 1.4% of the estimated annual loss to fraud and error. Talk about a hammer to crack a nut. This is power for power’s sake, an absolutely unnecessary power grab from the people. Today sees the threat unchecked, untested and coming forward. Looming on the horizon are other forms of state intervention and global intervention, with the World Health Organisation’s new international health regulations. Now is the time for Members to have a conversation about massive state interventions and why we do not want them.