Clause 3

Part of Compensation Bill [Lords] – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:00 pm on 22 June 2006.

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Photo of John Mann John Mann PPS (Rt Hon Richard Caborn, Minister of State), Department for Culture, Media & Sport 2:00, 22 June 2006

Again, I shall not go into the detail of the battles that I have been fighting on that matter. Suffice it to say, we are winning the cases in getting access to the files. It took a bit of a public campaign to get that moving, but that is now happening and the files are coming through. The Law Society has been very clear in that respect—if a file is complete, one can get hold of it and see whether there is a negligence issue. If one suspects that there is, one has the opportunity to do something about it. The point about Vendside Ltd. as a claims handler, and the three absurd agreements that the Government signed, is that one does not even have that basic right.