Shadow crime and policing minister Matt Vickers has backed the Government's new fraud and benefits bill, which proposes banning benefit cheats from driving if they refuse to repay money owed. However, Vickers argued the bill doesn’t go far enough, saying that more ambitious measures are needed. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We welcome measures brought forward to get benefit fraud down, but actually they're not
00:06going as far as we were. We're projecting to save £12 billion. We're putting forward
00:10all sorts of measures. So we welcome it, we want to see it go further, and actually there's
00:14going to be a lot more people unemployed as a result of the government's actions, so there
00:16is going to be bigger consequences to deal with on the level of that welfare bill.
00:20I think, do you know what, obviously it's about balance and what doesn't happen, what
00:24rights to privacy people do and don't have. But in real terms, if you need the support
00:29of the state, then you need to come to the state with, well you need to be open and transparent
00:33about your own affairs.