Clause 4 - Arrangements for payments in respect of information
Social Security Fraud Bill [Lords]
11:15 am
Professor Steve Webb (Northavon, Liberal Democrat)
On a brief point of clarification, I had not understood that the bulk request for information was not included in the table in the regulatory impact assessment. That prompts two questions. First, will the utilities be paid for the bulk information alone, not for the 60,000 inquiries referred to in the table? Secondly, the Minister implied that he did not know how many bulk requests would be made because the pilots had not happened, but the table states a figure of 60,000 for individual requests. Does the Under-Secretary have any idea of the scale of the bulk information? Are we talking in millions, for example?