Member

Under Amendment 300, the Secretary of State would be required to refer virtually all proposals for secondary legislation to the committee. This mirrors what happens with the SSAC. The committee would then consider the proposals and make a report to the Secretary of State with such recommendations as the committee thinks appropriate. What would happen next is important: the Secretary of State lays the secondary legislation as he or she chooses, but has to also lay a copy of the report from the advisory committee, together with an explanation of how the recommendations have been dealt with, or not, as the case may be. This gives a richness to the parliamentary scrutiny of that secondary legislation, which you would simply not have without that detailed external analysis.