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HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, our amendments in group 4 are designed to improve the system of debt recovery that the Bill seeks to establish to make sure that adequate protections are given to the…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillI thank the Minister. I thank my noble friend for bringing up the “Tell Us Once” service. A lot of people have said that it has brought them a lot of comfort after a relative has…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillI apologise to your Lordships. The Committee will be fed up with hearing from me before the afternoon is out. No? Excellent. We all agree that fraud against the public purse is…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, the amendments proposed in this group by the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, and the noble Lord, Lord Palmer of Childs Hill, provide us with an opportunity to question the…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillI thank the Minister. To conclude, these amendments are not on a question of principle, because we all support the purpose. It is a question of practicality and fairness and…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, the government amendments in this group are in principle welcome. They sensibly seek to simplify deduction orders and ease the operational burden they place on…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillI think we all want to see a system that robustly tackles fraud against the public purse but that also recognises and respects the practical consequences of how it is delivered.…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, our amendments in this group seek to understand the sort of relationship the Government envisage between the PSFA and other public authorities, how the PSFA is to be…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillIt is great to be having a dialogue with the noble Baroness. We welcome the Government’s amendments in this group which, taken together, amount to a series of technical…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, we welcome the Government’s amendment to make provision for cases where an individual with liability under the Bill has a person with power of attorney appointed to act…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, I will speak very briefly on this group of government amendments which make a number of technical and definitional clarifications to the Bill. We on these Benches…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, our amendments in this group seek to address an important point—the feedback loop which exists in the review mechanism for direct deduction orders. We believe that in…09 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillI thank noble Lords and thank the Minister for her response. The noble Baroness, Lady Fox, may feel that this is consensual camaraderie. However, I can assure her that, while I am…09 Jun 2025HANSARDComplications from Abortions (Annual Report) Bill [HL]My Lords, I apologise for not being able to attend Second Reading. I begin with the observation that, as a healthcare service, abortion is highly regulated and subject to the same…06 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill04 Jun 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillMy Lords, our first amendment —to insert a purpose clause—has a clear and simple aim. The Bill grants sweeping powers, many of which can be altered and wielded through secondary…04 Jun 2025