Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 179A: 179A: After Clause 66, insert the following new Clause— ““Regulatory transparency A regulator must publish a list on a regular basis of their completed enforcement actions and against whom such actions have been taken.”” The noble Lord said: As will be apparent to noble Lords who have sat through the Committee stage, we on these Benches support the implementation of the Macrory recommendations. The purpose of Amendment No. 179A is to introduce into the Bill the final Macrory recommendation that each regulator should, on a regular basis, publish a list of its completed enforcement actions, listing also against whom the actions have been taken. Therefore, the amendment would require regulators to make publicly available a simple list of when they have used the sanctions granted to them under Part 3. Macrory recommended that and examples exist of successes of this approach. A live example of the reputational regulation is set out in pilot schemes sponsored by the Food Standards Agency. In the scheme, local authorities publish the details of food hygiene inspection results. If food retail businesses think that consumers will refuse to eat at restaurants with low food hygiene scores, their publication obviously provides a real incentive for them to meet acceptable standards. I do not want to go into the position in the United States, but it has taken the principle to a further level. But we know that compliant restaurants in the United States attract more business and the rates of food poisoning are decreasing. We therefore propose that this final McCrory principle should be in the Bill, and that is the purpose of this amendment. I beg to move.