Clause 2 - Directions etc. by the Secretary of State
Private Security Industry Bill [Lords]
11:00 am
Mr John Bercow (Buckingham, Conservative)
The Minister is chuntering from a sedentary position. There is no reason why such a cap on fees should not be stated in the Bill. If the power is to be permissive rather than prescriptive—a matter of concern to my hon. Friends and me— and a wider set of directions covering a broader range of topics may be issued, with necessarily greater power being conferred upon the Secretary of State, I politely tell the Minister that it is incumbent on him, as it was on Lord Bassam, to tell us what sort of information may be required of the authority and what sort of directions may typically be issued to it.