Clause 1
Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [Lords]
10:30 am
Pat McFadden (Minister of State (Employment Relations and Postal Affairs), Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform; Wolverhampton South East, Labour)
The clause is a simple one, establishing the Local Better Regulation Office as a corporate body. There are a number of amendments tabled to the accompanying schedule 1, which sets out in detail how LBRO is intended to be established in statute. I shall reserve my main comments for those amendments, which attempt to alter in various ways the establishment of LBRO. The central part of the Bill is to establish the body, to carry out a number of functions to do with better regulation—advice to local authorities and central Government and adjudicating in certain ways between primary and enforcing authorities around the country. The clause is one of the central building blocks of the Bill, establishing LBRO to further the better regulation agenda at local level.