Meeting could coincide with possible Commons debate on claims he lied to MPs about Mandelson’s vetting Lisa O’Carroll is a senior Guardian correspondent. HM Revenue and Customs’ botched crackdown on alleged child benefit fraud is to be the subject of a full investigation by parliament’s public accounts committee, it has been announced. Starmer highlighted the way the Employment Rights Act will help working people. Opening with an anecdote about a letter from a shopworker verbally abused at work who could not take time off because of the old statutory sick pay rules, he summed up the changes like this. Now, the law of the land, for you and for every single person in this country, to finally enjoy the protections you deserve at work: sick pay from day one; paternity leave from day one; fire