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Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill

Let me give the hon. Gentleman an example. If we are to have the provision to audit members, we should know what “member” means. This is a fundamental omission, as was shown with the miners’ compensation scheme.

In that situation, certain unions created a new class of “associate membership”, with no rights other than the right for the claimants to be referred to the union-picked no win, no fee lawyers, from whom the unions then took a kickback commission. The scam was uncovered and the lawyers were heavily penalised by their regulators. However, not—

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
567 c1009 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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