Clause 79
Serious Crime Bill
11:15 am
Douglas Hogg (Sleaford and North Hykeham, Conservative)
I rise to support the amendments on the general basis of parliamentary control. Wherever I see provisions for an order, I like to see it subject to an affirmative resolution procedure. Whenever I see that provisions relate to the affirmative resolution procedure, I say that such measures are not amendable and that they are therefore bad news. If we have to have such procedures at all, why can we not have the super-affirmative procedure? That might be going too far on this occasion, so I back the amendments.