"My Lords, I hope that my Amendments 81, 89C and 91 are fairly self-explanatory and that we are getting into more detailed points, which might be easier, rather than points of philosophy.
Amendment 81 relates to the costs that the eligibility verification process will impose on the banks and other …..." Lord Vaux of Harrowden - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate and for their support for my amendments. We tabled these cost amendments primarily because we do not know what the costs are but we know that things will evolve in the future, and therefore it seems …..." Lord Vaux of Harrowden - View Speech
"My Lords, I have Amendment 89ZA in this group—I still do not understand the numbering system that the Public Bill Office uses.
Before I move on to that, I want to make a couple of comments on the two amendments that the noble Baroness, Lady Fox, just raised. I have …..." Lord Vaux of Harrowden - View Speech
"There is a big difference between pointing someone towards a data protection statement—let us be brutally honest: how many of us have ever read one?—and telling people that their bank account details can be provided to the DWP as a result of having this particular benefit. Nobody has ever read …..." Lord Vaux of Harrowden - View Speech
"Before the Minister moves on to Amendment 88, I asked about the cross-comparison with datasets from different banks; this goes to the point that the Minister has just been making about it being easy to commit fraud. To what extent will data from bank A be amalgamated with data from …..." Lord Vaux of Harrowden - View Speech
"In the situation where there would be a suspicion of fraud, you have bank A—actually, I suppose it would not have provided the information, would it?..." Lord Vaux of Harrowden - View Speech
"My Lords, Amendments 84 and 85 attempt to strengthen important safeguards around the use of information that is gained through an EVM. The Minister has quite rightly said that the scope of the information the banks can provide in response to an EVM is tightly limited. She is right, and …..." Lord Vaux of Harrowden - View Speech