This is a probing amendment. Subsection 36(4) of the Bill provides for one or more of the CMA’s functions to be delegated to one or more members of a panel—for example, decisions in competition cases. It would be useful to hear the Minister’s comments as to whether this is something that the Government envisage for the sector regulators. There is an option, which was discussed in the Government’s consultation, but which was not set out in the Bill, for regulators to be relieved of their decision-making powers in competition cases. Is that still an option on the table, possibly through secondary legislation and for the decision then to be vested with the panels that are set up for that purpose under this clause. Some of the sector regulators are concerned about exactly what the intention is. I beg to move.
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