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Fraud Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 9:"Page 2, line 10, leave out ““dishonestly””" The noble Lord said: These amendments relate to fraud by failing to disclose information. They, too, are probing amendments to tease out the Government’s thinking in the drafting of this clause and their reaction to the responses received from their consultation. The current drafting states:"““A person is in breach of this section if he . . .  dishonestly fails to disclose to another person information which he is under a legal duty to disclose””." Our amendments would leave out the word ““dishonestly”” and insert ““wrongfully””. As the Government are no doubt aware, one of the questions they posed in their consultation on this Bill was,"““should it be fraud to wrongfully and dishonestly fail to disclose information?””" Why have the Government settled on this wording rather than any other? I beg to move.