"My Lords, we are in a world of information-sharing and information-gathering, and this is where that starts and stops. Amendment 3 would ensure that
“information notices issued to banks and financial institutions include a clear statement that the person to whom the information relates is not necessarily guilty of suspected …..." Lord Palmer of Childs Hill - View Speech
"My Lords, clearly, it would be best if something such as who these investigators are was in the Bill so that we have more detail. What we are being offered by these amendments is to require the Minister to outline in statutory guidance the process for appointing authorised investigators. This …..." Lord Palmer of Childs Hill - View Speech
"My Lords, our principle generally is that the lowest level of government should make those decisions. To put it up to central government would be overloading central government. It would be like “Yes Minister” with a row of civil servants—bless them—dealing with something that has been sent up from the …..." Lord Palmer of Childs Hill - View Speech
"My Lords, I found it difficult to believe that this was being required of us today. Amendment 21 requires each public authority’s reported fraud rates annually, employing a rigorous audit and sampling comparably statistically robust methods. That assumes that public authorities are not running any systems whatever themselves. The whole …..." Lord Palmer of Childs Hill - View Speech
"My Lords, the UK is experiencing a decline in payrolled employees and a significant drop in graduate job opportunities, with listings for entry-level graduate jobs at the lowest level for seven years. This does not really tie in with the wonderful statistics the Minister told us about. There is another …..." Lord Palmer of Childs Hill - View Speech
"My Lords, would the Minister say whether there is any benefit from IDF member soldiers attending the college? Will they not gain more of a feeling of what we in the UK think from attending the college than if we prohibit them from hearing those views?..." Lord Palmer of Childs Hill - View Speech
"My Lords, building on an earlier question and the Minister’s reply, she will be aware that, as well as young people claiming unemployment benefits, large numbers of them are not in education, employment or training. Given the lasting damage that long periods out of the labour market can have, especially …..." Lord Palmer of Childs Hill - View Speech
"My Lords, can the Minister expand on the purpose of a face-to-face assessment? Is this to help people get the sickness benefit they want and need, or is it in some way to make it more difficult for people to get sickness benefit? What is the overriding reason for such …..." Lord Palmer of Childs Hill - View Speech