Member

These are all serious questions that will not be fully answered until further regulations come forward. Indeed, they are so important that we should be given the opportunity to scrutinise them when they are presented. There should be proper oversight, due process and scrutiny of a policy that will affect millions of people, but under the Government’s proposals we would not get that opportunity and would have to automatically accept the Government’s decisions. We do not believe that that is right. We are simply asking for a minimum level of oversight without imposing a cost on the Exchequer or undermining the Government’s objectives. I cannot see how that would be disagreeable.