Schedule 1
Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [Lords]
10:45 am
Mark Prisk (Shadow Minister, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Hertford and Stortford, Conservative)
These are probing amendments and seek to put certain details on the record, which I hope will enable the implementation of the legislation to be improved. Amendment No. 17 seeks to delete subsection (3) on page 38. Its purpose is to ask the Minister what we mean by Welsh Ministers. Are they members of the Welsh Executive, Ministers of the Crown, or both?
Amendment No. 18 is another probing amendment, which relates to paragraph 3(5) of the schedule. It states:
“LBRO is to pay to or in respect of the ordinary members such sums as the Secretary of State may determine by way of or in respect of remuneration allowances, expenses, pensions or gratuities.”
I am not entirely clear what that text means; perhaps there is an additional or a missing word, or a typographical error. I am not sure, but I shall be happy if the Minister would clarify that. I have three or four different interpretations of it, and I would be interested to hear the Minister’s reply as to whether there is an additional “to” in there.
Thirdly, amendment No. 19, relating to paragraph 3(6), reads:
“If the Secretary of State thinks that there are special circumstances that make it right for a person ceasing to be an ordinary member of LBRO to receive compensation, LBRO must pay to that person such compensation as the Secretary of State may determine.”
Can the Minister explain what he regards as those “special circumstances”?