Clause 22
Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill
10:00 am
Mark Prisk (Shadow Minister (Small Businesses and Enterprise), Trade & Industry; Hertford and Stortford, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 12, in clause 22, page 12, line 36, at end add—
‘(6) The Secretary of State must publish the reasons for any approval given under paragraph 22(4)(b).’.
This is a probing amendment and our aim is to get the Secretary of State, or perhaps in this case the Minister, to explain to us the basis for making his decisions, or not. In what circumstances does the Minister foresee that this would be unacceptable? For example, if an overseas corporate body were involved, would that be something that would be acceptable to the Government, or not? That is one example; there are others. I would be interested to hear what the Minister has to say.