In its response to the Treasury Committee's report, the Treasury acknowledged that NDAs are being used to «intimidate victims of discrimination and harassment into silence». However, it argued there is a «legitimate place» for NDAs to protect commercially sensitive information, ideas or intellectual property in «business transactions and disputes involving negligence claims». At the same time, it expressed a commitment to bring forward legislation outlining that NDAs «cannot be legally enforced if they prevent victims from reporting a crime and to ensure information related to crimina...
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