Clause 42
Education and Inspections Bill
10:30 am
John Hayes (Shadow Minister (Vocational Education), Education; South Holland and The Deepings, Conservative)
In our last debate, before the new Minister joined this happy breed, we were discussing amendment No. 92. I, too, welcome the Minister and hope that he has an exciting time here. He must not expect the mundane or prosaic; the Committee has ranged widely and considered matters with the appropriate seriousness, which it will apply to this amendment.
To reprise the argument briefly, our case is that complaints should not be vexatious and should have merit. In that spirit, the objector should be obliged to explain fully a detailed case and the adjudicator should have the right to dismiss cases when it is not clear why the objector believes—