Clause 32 - Customer information
Crime (International Co-operation) Bill [Lords]
9:30 am
Mr David Heath (Somerton and Frome, Liberal Democrat)
The Minister is misdirecting her comments; no one is arguing that it should always be a senior officer who has to make the application. My point is that, because of the wording of the clause, the subject of the verb ''arrange'' may be taken to be the Secretary of State, and no one wants the Secretary of State to have to arrange for a constable to apply for the order. We want a senior police officer to do that. That, I think, was the argument made by the hon. Member for Surrey Heath.