"Now when the secretary of state for Culture, Media and Sport made a statement about this before Christmas, I pressed him that financial harms need to be within the scope of that bill, and he made it pretty clear within his answer it won't be."
According to Hansard notes, at the time, Dowden replied: "Through secondary legislation, we will set out priority harms. I will not go into every last harm, because that will be a process for scrutiny.
"On the broader point about financial fraud and so on, the right hon. gentleman raises very important points, and of course we will seek to address that as a government; I am just not convinced that this is the appropriate legislative vehicle for doing so."
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