Clause 40
Welfare Reform Bill
10:30 am
Mark Harper (Shadow Minister, Work & Pensions; Forest of Dean, Conservative)
I am grateful to the Minister, and pleased that she is able to confirm that there will be a process in place to use either registered post, which requires a signature for delivery, or a personal visit, to ensure that the correct individual has actually received the notice. I think that is right. First, it will help to ensure that there are as few cases of injustice as possible. Secondly, the last thing we want to do is clog up the magistrates courts with lots of appeals that are only there because of administrative foul-ups.
Having got those assurances on the record, and having heard the Minister elaborate on some of the evidence—and confirming, as the Bill says, that this will be assessed over the trial period and looked at very carefully—I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.