London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (Amendment) Bill

Lindsay Hoyle Excerpts

Tuesday 29th November 2011 Commons Chamber

[The Minister for Sport and the Olympics (Hugh Robertson)]

I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 1.

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Lindsay Hoyle)]

With this we may take Lords amendments 2 and 3.

[Hugh Robertson]

The amendments address a technical concern raised by the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee in the other place.

Hon. Members will recall that the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006 provides for the making of advertising and trading regulations. Under the Act, all such regulations, including amending regulations, are subject to the affirmative resolution procedure. The Bill, when we debated it earlier this year, would have amended the 2006 Act to provide that advertising and trading regulations, apart from the first set, could be made via the negative resolution procedure.

The Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, in its report of 14 October, accepted the need to amend the 2006 Act to facilitate the amendment of the regulations via the quicker negative resolution procedure.