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There is a proposal for that to be three years, with that period running from start of the criminal investigation rather than from the date of the offence. What is the Law Society’s view on that?
In the next paragraph, you say that, to date, only £148 million of that funding has been committed in budgets or is visible in budgets, so there is £352 million that has not been spent or simply does not exist.
It is about preventing fraud from occurring and, as I said, it is about preventing people from making mistakes and about forcing people to think about data that they have submitted and whether it is up to date and accurate or needs to be changed.
An example from last year, or the year before, is that there was quite a lot of debate about use-by dates and best-before dates and whether we should get rid of them.