Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:41 pm on 27 March 2017.
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We have a duty to consider the further risks to public money, which is why my accounting officer, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and I accepted on advice that, however painful it is—these are significant sums of money, as my hon. Friend Mike Freer said—we should prevent the sums of money from being even greater.