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Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 51: 51: Clause 15, page 7, line 10, after ““must”” insert ““lay before both Houses of Parliament and”” The noble Lord said: I also speak to Amendments Nos. 54 and 167. I have already had some encouragement on this group of amendments. All three obviously suggest that when guidance or directions are being given by the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers they should also be laid before Parliament. Parliament should be kept in the loop for fairly obvious reasons which I need not labour. Amendment No. 167 is the most important. It refers to something we have not yet got to—it is much further forward in the Bill, in Clause 63. The relevant authority—the Government or Welsh Minister—must review after three years the power to impose fixed monetary penalties and so on: served stop notices and that sort of thing. Given the importance of fixed monetary penalties and stop notices, the result of that review should be presented to Parliament. That is even more important than the general guidance, which is dealt with in Amendments Nos. 51 and 54, but all three amendments are important. I beg to move.