Clause 49 - Inspection of premises: powers of inspectors
Pensions Bill
3:45 pm
Mr George Osborne (Tatton, Conservative)
I do not want to require people to have a lawyer with them; I just want them to have that option. The amendment was tabled to ensure that the Government know why they want to take upon themselves the power to inspect and cross-examine people—and, indeed, to ask who will be doing that examining. Will it be the inspectors who went in to look at documents, or would they call in a team of people who were better trained at questioning people? It will be interesting to hear what the Under-Secretary has to say about that.