Clause 12 - Register of licences
Private Security Industry Bill [Lords]
11:15 am
Mr Ian Stewart (Eccles, Labour)
Thank you for your advice, Mr. Winterton.
The register of licences, and the philosophy behind it, is extremely important. The learned contributions of my right hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, South have been about the past. He referred to how the people whom we now prefer to call door stewards have been at the lower end of the scale and have not adhered to standards that the Committee would accept. Local authority licensing must be seen as having a more productive and civilised approach, involving women, for example. When physical contact is necessary, the intent should be about restraint and control, not about bouncing. That is the philosophy that should be behind licensing at that level.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 12 ordered to stand part of the Bill.