Clause 124
Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill [Lords]
3:15 pm
Simon Hughes (North Southwark and Bermondsey, Liberal Democrat)
I have one question. The clause sets out who the supervising authority is—an issue to which the hon. Member for Braintree referred earlier. Subsection (1) says that it is the Lord Chancellor or anyone authorised by the Lord Chancellor. Whom does the Department have in mind? We went through this last year with regard to some legislation brought forward by the Department. There was an interim arrangement involving Ministers or civil servants, before a transfer to the Legal Services Commission. It would be interesting to know whom Ministers have in mind as an agency—it might be individual or whatever—both on an interim basis and in the long term.