Member

Finally, has the Minister given any thought to scrutiny or oversight of the financial ramifications we are being invited to support tonight by means of the DCMS Select Committee, the Treasury Select Committee or the Public Accounts Committee? Given the very wide powers in this part of the Bill, there needs to be appropriate scrutiny of the dispensing of very significant amounts of public money. We are told that, at the top end, the worst-case scenario could be £140 million over the course of a Parliament. We need to get the wording right and protect taxpayers’ interests.