Clause 48 - ENTRY TO PREMISES UNDER WARRANT
Consumer Credit Bill
10:30 am
Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Employment Relations, Competition and Consumers), Department of Trade and Industry; Bradford South, Labour)
This is not about an over-powerful state. This is about achieving a necessary balance; it is about protecting documents that could be tampered with, even though those documents may be destroyed. Hon. Members are right to have probed me. My powers of eloquence will either persuade them or otherwise on this matter, and I hope that the Committee will support the clause.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 48 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clauses 49 and 50 ordered to stand part of the Bill.