Member

I turn to Amendment 271, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Holmes of Richmond, and Amendment 271ZA, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, which would introduce additional reporting requirements. Existing transparency measures established by the Bill are sufficiently broad to allow rigorous parliamentary scrutiny of the fair work agency. Clauses 91 and 92 mandate that the Secretary of State must publish an enforcement strategy setting out how enforcement functions will be exercised and an annual report requiring an annual assessment of the exercise of these functions. These will be laid before Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly. This is an upgrade on current transparency arrangements. There is no current legislative requirement for the Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate or HMRC’s minimum wage unit to produce annual reports or strategies.