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Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025

Government Bill

Originated in the House of Commons, Session 2024-26

Act of Parliament (1)

Full text of the Act of Parliament as passed by Parliament (this is the Act in its original state. The Act may have been amended by another Act and any such amendments are not shown in this version).

Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 (c. 28)
2 December 2025

Full text of the Bill as introduced and further versions of the Bill as it is reprinted to incorporate amendments (proposals for change) made during its passage through Parliament.

HL Bill 145 Commons Agreement and Amendment, Disagreements, Reason, and Amendments in Lieu
5 November 2025
Lords
Bill 319 2024-26 (Lords Amendments)
27 October 2025
Commons
25 June 2025
Lords
30 April 2025
Lords
Bill 204 2024-25 (as amended in Public Bill Committee)
18 March 2025
Commons
Bill 204 2024-25 (as amended in Public Bill Committee) - large print
18 March 2025
Commons
Bill 204 2024-25 (as amended in Public Bill Committee) - xml version
18 March 2025
Commons
Bill 167 2024-25 (as introduced)
22 January 2025
Commons
Bill 167 2024-25 (as introduced) - xml version
22 January 2025
Commons
Bill 167 2024-25 (as introduced) - large print
22 January 2025
Commons

Documents to explain the purpose of the Bill.

Bill 319 EN 2024-26 (Lords Amendments)
3 November 2025
Commons
30 April 2025
Lords
Bill 167 EN 2024-25
22 January 2025
Commons
Bill 167 EN 2024-25 - large print
22 January 2025
Commons

In the House of Commons, amendments are grouped together so that amendments relating to a particular topic or issue are discussed together.

Grouping of Lords Amendments by Minister Pat McFadden and selection of motions by Mr Speaker - 5 November 2025
5 November 2025
Commons
Grouping of Lords Amendments by Minister Pat McFadden and selection of motions by Mr Speaker - large print - 5 November 2025
5 November 2025
Commons
Mr Speaker’s provisional grouping and selection of Amendments - 29 April 2025
29 April 2025
Commons
Chair’s provisional selection and grouping of amendments in Committee - 18 March 2025
17 March 2025
Commons
Chair’s provisional selection and grouping of amendments in Committee - 13 March 2025
13 March 2025
Commons
Chair’s provisional selection and grouping of amendments in Committee - 11 March 2025
10 March 2025
Commons
Chair’s provisional selection and grouping of amendments in Committee - 6 March 2025
6 March 2025
Commons
Chair’s provisional selection and grouping of amendments in Committee - 4 March 2025
3 March 2025
Commons
Chair’s provisional selection and grouping of amendments in Committee - 27 February 2025
27 February 2025
Commons

The Government provide a delegated powers memorandum for all public (including hybrid) bills to justify the delegation of powers, usually to Ministers, in the bill. For reports of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, see “Select Committee Reports”.

Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recover) Bill: Supplementary Delegated Powers Memorandum
13 October 2025
Lords
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill: Delegated Powers Memorandum
1 May 2025
Lords
Memorandum from the Department for Work and Pensions to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
22 January 2025
Commons

Full list of amendment papers relating to the Bill. Individual amendment papers will be replaced with consolidated lists before the amendments are discussed. Page and line references in amendment papers refer to the PDF version of the Bill.

HL Bill 145-I Marshalled List for Consideration of Commons Reasons and Amendments
10 November 2025
Lords
HL Bill 145(a) Motions for Consideration of Commons Reasons and Amendments
6 November 2025
Lords
Commons Consideration of Lords Amendments as at 5 November 2025
5 November 2025
Commons
Commons Consideration of Lords Amendments as at 5 November 2025 - large print
5 November 2025
Commons
Notice of CCLA Amendments as at 4 November 2025
4 November 2025
Commons
HL Bill 114-II Second marshalled list for Report
17 October 2025
Lords
HL Bill 114-I(a) Amendments for Report (Supplementary to the Marshalled List)
14 October 2025
Lords
HL Bill 114-I Marshalled list for Report
13 October 2025
Lords
HL Bill 114 Running list of amendments - 10 October 2025
10 October 2025
Lords
HL Bill 114 Running list of amendments - 8 October 2025
8 October 2025
Lords
HL Bill 114 Running list of amendments - 3 October 2025
3 October 2025
Lords
HL Bill 114 Running list of amendments - 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
Lords
HL Bill 114 Running list of amendments - 15 August 2025
15 August 2025
Lords
HL Bill 96-VI Sixth marshalled list for Grand Committee
23 June 2025
Lords
HL Bill 96-V Fifth marshalled list for Grand Committee
17 June 2025
Lords
HL Bill 96-IV(a) Amendments for Grand Committee (Supplementary to the Fourth Marshalled List)
13 June 2025
Lords
HL Bill 96-IV Fourth marshalled list for Grand Committee
12 June 2025
Lords
HL Bill 96-III Third marshalled list for Grand Committee
10 June 2025
Lords
HL Bill 96-II(Rev) Revised Second marshalled list for Grand Committee
6 June 2025
Lords
HL Bill 96-II Second marshalled list for Grand Committee
5 June 2025
Lords
HL Bill 96-I(a) Amendments for Grand Committee (Supplementary to the Marshalled List)
3 June 2025
Lords
HL Bill 96-I Marshalled list for Grand Committee
2 June 2025
Lords
HL Bill 96 Running list of amendments – 30 May 2025
30 May 2025
Lords
HL Bill 96 Running list of amendments – 29 May 2025
29 May 2025
Lords
HL Bill 96 Running list of amendments – 28 May 2025
28 May 2025
Lords
HL Bill 96 Running list of amendments – 27 May 2025
27 May 2025
Lords
HL Bill 96 Running list of amendments – 16 May 2025
16 May 2025
Lords
HL Bill 96 Running list of amendments - 15 May 2025
15 May 2025
Lords
Consideration of Bill Amendments as at 29 April 2025
29 April 2025
Commons
Consideration of Bill Amendments as at 29 April 2025 - large print
29 April 2025
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 28 April 2025
28 April 2025
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 25 April 2025
25 April 2025
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 24 April 2025
24 April 2025
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 23 April 2025
23 April 2025
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 22 April 2025
22 April 2025
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 9 April 2025
9 April 2025
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 8 April 2025
8 April 2025
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 7 April 2025
7 April 2025
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 2 April 2025
2 April 2025
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 31 March 2025
31 March 2025
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 25 March 2025
25 March 2025
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 24 March 2025
24 March 2025
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 20 March 2025
20 March 2025
Commons
Public Bill Committee Amendments as at 18 March 2025
18 March 2025
Commons
Notices of Amendments as at 14 March 2025
14 March 2025
Commons
Public Bill Committee Amendments as at 13 March 2025
13 March 2025
Commons
Notice of Amendments as at 12 March 2025
12 March 2025
Commons
Public Bill Committee Amendments as at 11 March 2025
11 March 2025
Commons
Notice of Amendments as at 10 March 2025
10 March 2025
Commons
Notice of Amendments as at 7 March 2025
7 March 2025
Commons
Public Bill Committee Amendments as at 6 March 2025
6 March 2025
Commons
Notice of Amendments as at 5 March 2025
5 March 2025
Commons
Public Bill Committee Amendments as at 4 March 2025
4 March 2025
Commons
Notice of Amendments as at 28 February 2025
28 February 2025
Commons
Public Bill Committee Amendments as at 27 February 2025
27 February 2025
Commons
Notice of Amendments as at 26 February 2025
26 February 2025
Commons
Public Bill Committee Amendments as at 25 February 2025
25 February 2025
Commons
Notice of Amendments as at 24 February 2025
24 February 2025
Commons
Notice of Amendments as at 21 February 2025
21 February 2025
Commons
Notice of Amendments as at 7 February 2025
7 February 2025
Commons

Minutes of the Reasons Committee held in the House of Commons to consider Lords Amendments to a Bill

Committee to draw up Reasons for disagreeing to Lords Amendments - 5 November 2025
5 November 2025
Commons

Details of proceedings in Public Bill Committee or Committee of the whole House, on any report (consideration) stage, and on any consideration of Lords Amendments or any subsequent Lords Messages. The documents contain the text of amendments considered at each sitting and show whether it was agreed to, negatived (not agreed), not called, not moved or withdrawn.

Proceedings on consideration of Lords Amendments as at 5 November 2025
5 November 2025
Commons
Report stage proceedings as at 29 April 2025
29 April 2025
Commons
All Proceedings up to 18 March 2025 at Public Bill Committee Stage
18 March 2025
Commons

House of Commons Library and House of Lords Library briefing papers aim to be politically impartial, containing factual information as well as a range of opinions on each subject. Briefing papers on Bills are produced before Second Reading and, in the Commons, after Committee Stage.

Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill 2024-26: Lords amendments
4 November 2025
Commons
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill: HL Bill 96
9 May 2025
Lords
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill 2024-25: Progress of the Bill
16 April 2025
Commons
Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill 2024-25
30 January 2025
Commons

The following select committee reports have been identified as relevant to the debate on the Bill.

24th Report of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
20 May 2025
Lords

Archive of press notices related to the Bill.

Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill: call for evidence
7 February 2025
Commons

The Government human rights memorandum is prepared by the Government to assist the Joint Committee on Human Rights with its scrutiny of the Bill’s human rights implications.

Human Rights Memorandum for the Bill as brought from the House of Commons
30 April 2025
European Convention on Human Rights Memorandum
22 January 2025
Commons

Written submissions from outside bodies and individuals are circulated to MPs appointed to examine the Bill during committee stage in a Public Bill Committee. The following written submissions were sent to this committee.

Written evidence submitted by Big Brother Watch (PAB13)
13 March 2025
Commons
Written evidence submitted by JUSTICE (supplementary submission) (PAB10)
6 March 2025
Commons
Written evidence submitted by Nick Sharp, Deputy Director, Fraud, National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), National Crime Agency (NCA) (PAB11)
6 March 2025
Commons
Written evidence submitted by Nik Adams, Deputy Commissioner, National Coordinator for Economic and Cyber Crime and the NPCC Lead for Financial Investigation and Asset Recovery, City of London Police (PAB12)
6 March 2025
Commons
Written evidence submitted by the Child Poverty Action Group (PAB06)
4 March 2025
Commons
Written evidence submitted by Citizens Advice across Warwickshire (PAB07)
4 March 2025
Commons
Written evidence submitted by Citizens Advice (PAB08)
4 March 2025
Commons
Written evidence submitted by the Money Advice Trust (PAB09)
4 March 2025
Commons
Written evidence submitted by the Public Law Project (PAB05)
27 February 2025
Commons
Written evidence submitted by John Stockley ACILEX, F.Inst.PA, MCIArb (Retired) (PAB01)
25 February 2025
Commons
Written evidence submitted by the Regulatory Policy Committee (RPC) (PAB02)
25 February 2025
Commons
Written evidence submitted by Turn2us (PAB03)
25 February 2025
Commons
Written evidence submitted by Dr Rasha Kassem, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Accounting Department, Aston Business School (PAB04)
25 February 2025
Commons

List of related Impact Assessments

Impact Assessment from the Department for Work and Pensions
22 January 2025

Occasionally questions put to government Ministers during debates on Bills in either the House of Commons or the House of Lords may be answered by the Minister saying 'I will write to the Hon Member'. Such “will write” replies are not published in Hansard but are placed in the Library of the House concerned and published on the Parliamentary website.

Letter from Baroness Anderson regarding a definition of what cannot constitute “reasonable grounds”, security and fairness of the algorithmic operation, compliance with the standard, recruitment and training.
8 July 2025

Full transcripts

Commons Committee stage

Compilation PDF of all Committee Debate sittings so far
18 March 2025
Commons
18 March 2025
Commons
13 March 2025
Commons
11 March 2025
Commons
11 March 2025
Commons
6 March 2025
Commons
6 March 2025
Commons
5 March 2025
Commons
4 March 2025
Commons
27 February 2025
Commons
27 February 2025
Commons
25 February 2025
Commons
25 February 2025
Commons

Link to the relevant section in the Commons Hansard Daily Report

Commons 2nd reading

2nd reading - Commons Hansard link
3 February 2025
Commons

Commons Programme motion

Programme motion - Commons Hansard link
3 February 2025
Commons

Commons Money resolution

Money resolution - Commons Hansard link
3 February 2025
Commons

Commons Report stage

Report Stage - Commons Hansard link
29 April 2025
Commons

Commons 3rd reading

3rd Reading - Commons Hansard link
29 April 2025
Commons

Commons Consideration of Lords amendments

Consideration of Lords amendments - Commons Hansard link
5 November 2025
Commons

Lords 1st reading

30 April 2025
Lords

Lords 2nd reading

15 May 2025
Lords

Lords Committee stage

25 June 2025
Lords
18 June 2025
Lords
16 June 2025
Lords
11 June 2025
Lords
9 June 2025
Lords
4 June 2025
Lords

Lords Report stage

Lord Hansard - part one
21 October 2025
Lords
Lords Hansard - part two
21 October 2025
Lords
15 October 2025
Lords

Lords 3rd reading

23 October 2025
Lords

Lords Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons

11 November 2025
Lords

Royal Assent

2 December 2025

Lords 1st reading

Minutes of Proceedings
30 April 2025
Lords

Lords 2nd reading

Minutes of Proceedings
15 May 2025
Lords

Lords Committee stage

Minutes of Proceedings
25 June 2025
Lords
Minutes of Proceedings
18 June 2025
Lords
Minutes of Proceedings
16 June 2025
Lords
Minutes of Proceedings
11 June 2025
Lords
Minutes of Proceedings
9 June 2025
Lords
Minutes of Proceedings
4 June 2025
Lords

Lords Report stage

Minutes of Proceedings - part one
21 October 2025
Lords
Minutes of Proceedings - part two
21 October 2025
Lords
Minutes of Proceedings
15 October 2025
Lords

Lords 3rd reading

Minutes of Proceedings
23 October 2025
Lords

Lords Consideration of Commons amendments and / or reasons

Minutes of Proceedings
11 November 2025
Lords

Royal Assent

Minutes of Proceedings
2 December 2025