Court cases forced FAS extension - Hutton

In the Written Ministerial Statement, Hutton says the decision to increase the FAS fund from £2bn to £8bn was “the result of my reflection on the implications of the High Court ruling in the judicial review of the government’s decision to reject the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s findings of maladministration by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)”. And he adds his “reflections have also been informed by the judgment of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the Robins case”, as in that judgment, Hutton admitted the European Court had indicated the level of protection provided to some ...