Member

The Bill, in Clause 90, already creates an advisory board for the Secretary of State, but it will cover only the Secretary of State’s enforcement functions. As I have tried to explain, my amendment is much broader than that in covering all secondary legislation. Importantly, the advisory board established by Clause 90 will operate behind closed doors, and the outside world—including Parliament, which is my main concern here—will have no idea about what it does and what it advises. That is not the SSAC model, and it is not the model of the committee proposed in my Amendments 299 and 300, which, as I have stated, would have parliamentary accountability at its heart.