Clause 48
Welfare Reform Bill
6:15 pm
Tim Boswell (Daventry, Conservative)
The Under-Secretary is giving a satisfactory response to the queries that have rightly been raised. Will she confirm that there has been no historic difficulty with the three-year rule in respect of the Human Rights Act 1998 and that there have been no successful defences of the allegedly fraudulent claimant on the grounds that, somewhere, the process has been unfair? Bearing in mind that Ministers have given their certificate about compliance, will she confirm that a five-year period is within those principles? I have no difficulty with them.