Clause 24 - Power to confer additional functions on Chief Inspector
Police and Justice Bill
Public Bill Committees, 28 March 2006, 11:30 am
Fiona Mactaggart (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Slough, Labour)
I beg to move amendment No. 87, in clause 24, page 25, line 22, leave out ‘additional functions’ and insert
‘functions, other than inspection functions,’.
This technical amendment puts beyond doubt the purpose for which clause 24 is to be used—that is, to confer non-inspection functions relating to the existing inspection remit on the chief inspector if that is desired, not to add areas of inspection to the remit. A hypothetical example, in case hon. Members require it, of such a non-inspection function would be a role in making senior appointments to an inspected organisation.