Member

The amendment does not seek to create rigid bureaucracy; it offers flexibility by allowing the Minister to update the list of recognised qualifications through regulations, to define the relevant standards and accrediting bodies, and to provide for transitional arrangements for those currently in training. It strikes the right balance, setting a clear minimum professional standard while enabling evolution in practice and qualification over time. Ensuring that these requirements are set out in the Bill, rather than through an uncodified guarantee, is an important confidence-building measure that balances our ambition to tackle fraud with a recognition that we must do this responsibly. If we are to create a fraud enforcement system that commands public confidence, avoids error and upholds the rule of law, we must be clear in the Bill that those who wield investigatory powers are trained to the highest standards available.