Clause 21
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Bill [Lords]
2:30 pm
Eric Martlew (Carlisle, Labour)
With this it will be convenient to discuss Government amendments Nos. 163 and 164.
Joan Ryan (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office; Enfield North, Labour)
The amendments modify clause 21 to allow the Secretary of State to prescribe additional requirements that must be fulfilled before a person is regarded as being subject to monitoring within the meaning of clause 21. The current criteria are that the individual is not barred and has satisfied the prescribed identification and application requirements. Only a person who is subject to monitoring may engage in regulated activity for a regulated activity provider. Amendment No. 162 widens clause 21(1)(c) so that the prescribed requirements do not relate merely to identification. Amendments Nos. 163 and 164 make consequential changes to the other parts of the clause that relate to identification.
The amendments would allow requirements to be added to the identification requirements that must be satisfied before a person is subject to monitoring and may therefore engage in regulated activity. That will ensure that the scheme can continue to build on wider developments, such as the development of new police systems. I therefore ask that hon. Members accept the amendments.
Amendments made: No. 163, in clause 21, page 14, line 26, leave out ‘If the prescribed identification’ and insert
‘The prescribed requirements may include requirements as to the manner in which the applicant must prove his identity (identification requirements); and if such’.
No. 164, in clause 21, page 14, line 31, leave out ‘prescribed’.—[Joan Ryan.]