Member

By taking a power to make regulations, the Government can adjust the timetable as they learn more about the types of requests they are likely to receive. Setting out the timeframe in primary legislation may disincentivise the Government from improving and speeding up decision-making over time. Not only would this amendment introduce greater rigidity by effectively requiring decisions to be taken in three months when perhaps they might be able to be taken sooner, which is what we all want to see in certain cases, but it could result in an unrealistic or unworkable time limit in, for example, particularly complex decisions. The Government plan to lay regulations to set a timeframe as quickly as possible, when parliamentary time allows.