Question
To ask Her Majesty's Government further to the Written Answer by Lord West of Spithead on 14 November 2007 (WA 25), under which Acts and secondary legislation listed in the Schedule to the Powers of Entry etc. Bill [HL] officials of the Department for Transport and of public or private bodies answerable to the Secretary of State for Transport or otherwise exercising powers of entry can enter and search the homes or business premises of United Kingdom citizens.
Answer
The Department for Transport is the department of the UK Government responsible for the legislation listed below which is contained in the schedule to the Powers of Entry etc Bill (version of 10 March 2010). The number in brackets is the number of powers of entry contained in that legislation (the basis of this information is a table held by the Home Office; the information is published by the Home Office on its website): Primary Legislation Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990 (1) Aviation Security Act 1982 (6) British Railways Act 1993 (4) Channel Tunnel Act 1987 (1) Civil Aviation Act 1982 (3) Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995 (2) Harbours Docks and Piers Clauses Act 1847 (3) Highways Act 1980 (6) International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs Act 1976 (1) International Road Haulage Permits Act 1975 (1) Merchant Shipping Act 1995 (7) Port of London Act 1968 (6) Radioactive Material (Road Transport) Act 1991 (2) Railways Act 1993 (1) Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (3) Road Traffic Act 1988 (6) Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (4) Shipping and Trading Interest (Protection) Act 1995 (1) Transport Act 1968 (5) Transport Act 2000 (2) (1 repealed) Transport and Works Act 1992 (2) Secondary Legislation Agricultural or Forestry Tractors (Emission of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants) Regulations 2002 (2) Alconbury Airfield (Rail Facilities and Connection to East Coast Main Line) Order 2003 (1) Biofuel (Labelling) Regulations 2004 (2) Carriage of Goods (Prohibition of Discrimination) Regulations 1977 (2) Channel Tunnel (Security) Order 1994 (4) Civil Aviation (Working Time) Regulations 2004 (1) Cross-border Railway Services (Working Time) Regulations 2008 (1) Hovercraft (General) Order 1972 (1) Measuring Instruments (Exhaust Gas Analysers) Regulations 2006 (2) Measuring Instruments (Taximeters) Regulations 2006 (2) Merchant Shipping (Counting and Registration of Persons on Board Passenger Ships) Regulations 1999 (1) Motor Vehicles (Tests) Regulations 1981 (1) Network Rail (West Coast Main Line) Order 2004 (1) Passenger Car (Fuel Consumption and CO² Emissions Information) Regulations 2001 (2) Road Transport (International Passenger Services) Regulations 1984(l) Road Transport (Working Time) Regulations 2005 (1) Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 (1) To provide further information relating to the availability of powers of entry by officials of the Department for Transport and of public or private bodies answerable to the Secretary of State or otherwise could only be provided at disproportionate cost.