Examination of Witness

Part of Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:43 pm on 23 January 2018.

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Joel Blackwell:

I am not sure it is a significant shift; the problem has always been that the balance between Parliament and the Executive in the control of delegated legislation has always been on the side of the Executive. We have always argued, and have argued in this report, that you need to redress that balance, and part of that would be to improve the scrutiny procedures that I have mentioned. I would not say that there has been a fundamental shift from this Bill onwards. There has always been an issue regarding the balance of power in the use and scrutiny of delegated legislation.