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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 24: 24: Clause 5, page 3, line 36, at end insert— ““(c) regulatory activities should be carried out on the basis of a risk assessment of the regulated person which should include that person’s propensity to comply with a regulation”” The noble Lord said: Crucial to the Hampton approach to enforcement is the concept that the aim should be to secure compliance rather than to seek prosecution. That activity should be focused on those who are most likely to disregard the law and fail to take remedial measures voluntarily. For this, it is essential that the emphasis of enforcement should be on those assessed as those who are likely to break the law and it seems strange that this key requirement should have been omitted, so this amendment seeks to achieve it. I beg to move.