Schedule 1 - Children's Commissioner
Children Bill [Lords]
11:00 am
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight, Conservative)
I am sorry, but that does not make it clear. That is because ''duplicate work'' implies doing work that has already been done and is the function of another person. In other words, the commissioner can do work that has not been done but is the function of another person. The problem is that if the power exists to go to another person—in this case the commissioner—the local government ombudsman is excluded from investigating a case. It seems that we are in a circle and the Minister has not yet got me out of it.