Clause 2
Driving Instruction (Suspension and Exemption Powers) Bill
9:45 am
Paul Clark (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Transport; Gillingham, Labour)
I have the pleasure of speaking to all those amendments in the name of the Government. The Bill provides for compensation to be paid to suspended driving instructors in certain circumstances. Where an affected instructor disputes the Secretary of State’s decision on whether they are entitled to compensation, or what the level of compensation should be, the Bill permits an appeal to the transport tribunal. The amendments are necessary to change the body that will decide appeals regarding compensation under the Bill from the transport tribunal to the first-tier tribunal created under the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007. That is in consequence of the intended transfer of the transport tribunal’s functions to the new tribunal in the near future.