Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

I repeat that I am a member of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee. I have not seen a reply from the committee to the Minister’s letter of 10 January to the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart. I am therefore seeking more information, and do not know whether the committee will write back to say, ““Thank you very much”” or ““So far, so good, but please go further””. We shall no doubt find that out. It is mainly Amendments Nos. 33 and 52 that concern me. I hope that I understand them correctly; I have no doubt that the Minister will correct me if I do not. Where the LBRO could have issued a direction to all 400 authorities, it will be able, as a result of the amendments, to issue only to one. How often could it issue a direction to one authority? On Monday, it could issue a direction to one, on Tuesday, it could issue a direction to another and on Wednesday, it could issue to a third. For what is it intended that the LBRO might use these directions? As the Minister said, under Clause 15, the Secretary of State can start the process by giving the LBRO a direction to make a direction. It would help the Committee enormously if we understood what it is intended that the power of direction might be used to achieve.