Clause 55 - Duties of OFT and Commission
Enterprise Bill
6:15 pm
Miss Melanie Johnson (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry; Welwyn Hatfield, Labour)
The discretion is not to alert the Secretary of State to representations. As I said, that is sensible flexibility for the OFT when it believes that the Secretary of State would not want to consider a matter. It is important that we do not build in features that can be abused by those who simply seek to clog up the regime. That would be in no one's interests.