Member

Putting aside the terminology, I ask your Lordships to consider the provisions themselves and the new proposals contained in the amendments. I referred earlier to a two-tier system: the normal process of just going to the commissioner and the whistleblower route. If the amendment were passed, the whistleblower investigations proposed would have the same scope as the current investigations’ powers but none of the additional powers of investigation. That is because the noble Baroness’s proposed new Section 340IC is not linked to new Sections 340IA and 340IB in the Bill.