Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill

Baroness Morris of Bolton Excerpts

Tuesday 3rd March 2015 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Neville-Rolfe]

My Lords, I shall be brief in speaking to these relatively minor but important amendments, and I shall start with Amendment 28. The Government are grateful to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee for its scrutiny of the Bill. In its report, the committee recommended that the power in Clause 39 should be changed from the negative to the affirmative procedure. The noble Lord, Lord Mendelsohn, also raised this in our debate in Committee, and so I am glad to be able to give effect to the recommendation.

Amendments 32 and 33 are technical amendments to update references to procurement regulations in Clauses 39 and 40 in the light of the new regulations that came into force last week. I hope noble Lords will support the amendments, and I beg to move.

[The Deputy Speaker (Baroness Morris of Bolton) (Con)]

My Lords, there is an error in the Marshalled List and the proposed amendment should read as follows:

Page 36, line 10, leave out from first “authority”” to “, or” in line 12 and insert “has the same meaning as in regulation 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/102)”.

Amendment 28 agreed.