Member

I come to Amendment 21, the final amendment to Clause 3, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Coffey. Clause 3 gives the Secretary of State the power to make regulations about the timetable for deciding requests for direction. This includes the timetable for the provision of information to the Secretary of State in order to make such a decision. The proposed amendment would replace this provision with a requirement for the Secretary of State to publish statutory guidance about the timetabling of information required to decide a request for direction.