Clause 6 - Making of order
Proceeds of Crime Bill
9:15 am
Mr Dominic Grieve (Beaconsfield, Conservative)
The Minister is really helpful. He explained that the issue was one not of drafting but of policy. Given that he has been in post for some time, even though the Bill may also have been in gestation for some time, too, he must have had some role to play in deciding the policy that originally produced the Scottish part and its discretionary powers for confiscation. I look forward to hearing in detail from the Minister all the principles that underlay his policy decision and that of his colleagues on the Scottish Executive to draft the Scottish clauses on confiscation in a way that was so radically different, and better—although the wording is similar—from the way in which the clauses were drafted for England and Wales.