Member

The Bill’s reliance on future regulation featured prominently in the report on the Bill by the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, of which I am a member. We drew attention to the skeleton clauses in the Bill, which give Ministers and future Ministers the power to write or rewrite regulations. These delegated powers make it imperative that future regulations be made with regard to keeping consumers safe and upholding key consumer protections. Amendment 97 would do this; it would achieve this through introducing an overarching clause that ensures the primacy of consumer protection as the underlying goal of any new product regulation and reiterating key principles that are an essential element of the current framework, including the precautionary principle.