​During the discussion on the opinion on the Tax Transparency Package in the ECON meeting, Mrs Gilian Ford, Councillor of London Borough of Havering,  expressed her concerns over the manipulation of tax through evasion and avoidance presented to ECON in a communication from the European Commission today at the CoR - the 1 trillion estimated loss through tax evasion and avoidance impacts strongly on the economies of Member States. "There needs to be a framework for sharing detailed information and data, but not to the levels of swamping Members States unnecessarily."  - she added.