Clause 66
Public Bill Committees, 5 March 2009, 10:15 am
Edward Garnier (Shadow Minister, Justice; Harborough, Conservative)
I have a brief question for the Minister. The clause deals with the delegation of functions of chief officers of police in various organisations, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Director of Revenue and Customs Prosecutions—I will not go through the whole list, as it is set out in subsections (1) to (7). Would it not be sensible for somebody to tell us, either in the Bill or in some other publicly available document, precisely to whom it is thought appropriate that such senior officials should delegate their functions?
Maria Eagle (Parliamentary Secretary, Government Equalities Office; Liverpool, Garston, Labour)
We would normally expect them to be delegated to personnel in the same organisation, such as specialist investigators or prosecutors, and that is certainly the intention.