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HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Second sitting)Q You will have heard our previous questions. We talked about the cost-benefit analysis for businesses in the private sector. In your Justice work, what is your assessment of the…25 Feb 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Second sitting)Q On eligibility verification, the Government have said that the final decision will always be made by a human. There is an aim to automate some things, which is not necessarily a…25 Feb 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Second sitting)Q What would get you to a place of feeling more comfortable with those safeguards? A provision that you can use the data once and then you cannot use it again? Where would you…25 Feb 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Second sitting)Particularly in relation to bank account details and information on spending, and that sort of thing, which you just used as an example. Jasleen Chaggar: On the eligibility…25 Feb 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Second sitting)Q This is possibly a slightly nuanced question, but there has been a lot of talk about the authorised officer role. To my mind, when you go from the Minister to the authorised…25 Feb 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Second sitting)Thank you.25 Feb 2025HANSARDPublic Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill (Second sitting)Q The Bill is sort of a move on from the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, which was introduced by the last Government. I know that the Information Commissioner had…25 Feb 2025HANSARD Support for PensionersSorry, I meant to say Wokingham. I had circled “Swansea West” in my notes; I was trying to be clever—forgive me. Anyway, I will go back to my notes; that would be much better. In…12 Feb 2025HANSARD Support for PensionersIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Siobhain. I thank and congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mid Bedfordshire (Blake Stephenson) on securing this…12 Feb 2025HANSARD Support for PensionersYes, absolutely, and I think we see that right across the piece of DWP benefits. That is one reason why we think getting people into work, in particular, is so important. The lack…12 Feb 2025HANSARD Support for PensionersDoes the Minister not agree that, from 2010, the previous Government secured a 200,000 reduction in the number of pensioners in absolute poverty? I do not have details of what the…12 Feb 2025HANSARDHMS Albion and HMS Bulwark2. What his plans are for the disposal of HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark.10 Feb 2025HANSARD Border Security, Asylum and Immigration BillIn the summer of 2001, on a University of Southampton history field trip to the east end of London—part of the course “The Making of Englishness” on changing notions of British…10 Feb 2025HANSARDHMS Albion and HMS BulwarkGiven that HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark are reportedly being sold to another navy for a figure that could well undervalue previous spends on refits and maintenance, how does the…10 Feb 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsT6. The Government have a long-standing position that they do not engage with the Muslim Council of Britain, so why did the Minister for Social Security and Disability decide to…05 Feb 2025HANSARD Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) BillIt is a pleasure to wind up this important debate on behalf of the official Opposition. It has been a really interesting debate, with some strong views expressed by Members from…03 Feb 2025HANSARDPost Office Closures: Impact on CommunitiesThe community of Plymstock in my constituency saw its main post office close in September 2021, when Morrisons closed more than 80 of its newsagents across the country; the post…30 Jan 2025HANSARD Local Post OfficesI absolutely agree with my right hon. Friend. I think that all of us in this Chamber will agree that having a post office within these banking hubs is vital. We have seen 76 hubs…30 Jan 2025HANSARD Local Post OfficesIn September 2021, Plymstock post office closed. It was part of the collateral damage of the closure by Morrisons of more than 80 newsagents. It was a legitimate business decision…30 Jan 2025HANSARDPost Office Closures: Impact on Communities11. What assessment he has made of the potential impact of Post Office closures on local communities.30 Jan 2025