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As Mr Beattie and the committee may recall from our discussion last year, the estimated levels of error and fraud in carers allowance payments dated to back to activity in the mid-1990s.
For the overwhelming majority of people, however, the situation was dealt with through a bank or earnings arrestment. As a result, those who have still not been able to pay and are being pursued for the tax are those who simply cannot pay.
We are mindful of the on-going issues in the eurozone and of the need for the EU to reach agreement on banking union proposals.I am pleased that political agreement on the £960 billion EU multi-annual financial framework for 2014 to 2020 was reached in July between the Council and the Parliament.