Rather than scrapping the body, the committee wants its remit to be changed to focus on increasing public access to the system and promoting better decision-making in an effort reduce the number of people seeking redress.

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Ms Hodge, a Labour MP, accused the government of "poor decision-making", which was "damaging public confidence" in the system.

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