Schedule 2 - Abolition of magistrates'
Courts Bill [Lords]
4:30 pm
Mr Christopher Leslie (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs; Shipley, Labour)
I dealt with some of these matters earlier in references to similar discussions on the general duties under clause 1 and I will not repeat what I said. We want the transfers to go through without the controversies to which the hon. Gentleman alluded. However, we will keep matters under review as they develop. We cannot preserve the current arrangements in aspic for all time, but we intend to honour our normal TUPE obligations.
Question put and agreed to.
Schedule 2 agreed to.
Further consideration adjourned.—[Ms Bridget Prentice.]
Adjourned accordingly at twenty-nine minutes to Five o'clock till Tuesday 1 July at half-past Nine o'clock.