Part of Employment Rights Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 3:30 pm on 9 January 2025.
Justin Madders
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
3:30,
9 January 2025
I beg to move Amendment 175, in Clause 101, page 95, line 11, leave out from “person” to end of line 12 and insert
“to disclose information to an enforcing authority where—
(a) the person is serving in an intelligence service, or
(b) the information is intelligence service information.”
This amendment would provide that clause 98(2) does not authorise the disclosure of intelligence service information.
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A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
