Clause 36 — Duty to Provide Membership Audit Certificate

Part of Medical Innovation (No. 2) – in the House of Commons at 2:00 pm on 11 September 2013.

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Photo of Jonathan Djanogly Jonathan Djanogly Conservative, Huntingdon 2:00, 11 September 2013

Let me give the hon. Gentleman an example. If we are to have the provision to audit members, we should know what “member” means. This is a fundamental omission, as was shown with the miners’ compensation scheme.

In that situation, certain unions created a new class of “associate membership”, with no rights other than the right for the claimants to be referred to the union-picked no win, no fee lawyers, from whom the unions then took a kickback commission. The scam was uncovered and the lawyers were heavily penalised by their regulators. However, not—