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Stephen Pound
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(11 years ago)
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Mike Penning
I greatly respect the hon. Gentleman, but the conclusions of the Court of Appeal were nothing to do with consultation. It was a process issue, in that the Court felt that the Minister had not been given enough information, based on the information that was put in writing. The Court went on to say that there was evidence that the Minister
“consulted personally with many affected groups”
and it had
“no doubt that evidence of hard cases would have been forcefully drawn to her attention.”
That is what the Court ruled. It had nothing to do with consultation.
Stephen Pound (Ealing North) (Lab)
The Department for Work and Pensions annual report was due to be published in April this year. When will we finally see it?
Mike Penning
With due respect, the Court ruling did not have an awful lot to do with that so I cannot answer the question. The annual report will come out in due course.