I am probing just to allow the Minister the opportunity to defend the necessity of giving these powers to the compliance officers. Clause 10 gives civil enforcement officers new powers to take materials away to copy relevant documents. It is, as I am sure the Minister will say, a relatively small power to give them, especially in comparison to those awarded in Clause 12, which I will come to later. Even small increases need to be justified. Can the Minister give us any evidence that the lack of these powers have prevented compliance officers issuing an enforcement notice, or is this just another example of the Government tweaking the employment law?
Employment Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Wilcox
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 25 February 2008.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Employment Bill [HL].
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