Clause 40
Welfare Reform Bill
5:00 pm
Tim Boswell (Daventry, Conservative)
May I put to the hon. Gentleman the converse? Individual officials, for whatever motive, may embark on what lawyers would call a fishing expedition, trying to find out information that may or may not be relevant to the case or to other matters with which they may have to deal, or which possibly cast aspersions on a claimant that are entirely irrelevant.