Viscount Colville of Culross (CB): I thank noble Lords for their contributions and ask the Minister to listen to the concerns Members have expressed today.

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I thank noble Lords for their contributions and ask the Minister to listen to the concerns Members have expressed today. The clause gives extraordinary power to the Secretary of State, and I ask the Minister to listen to his noble friends, the noble Baronesses, Lady Stowell and Lady Harding, who called the power dangerous. In particular, the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, said that it was so dangerous and such a big power that it must be a distraction. The noble Lord, Lord Black, said that the concern about having this power is that it would create a delay, and that that would especially be a c

Committee (3rd Day) Relevant document: 3rd Report from the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee. Northern Ireland Legislative Consent sought. Clause 89: Procedure and appeals etc Amendment 64 Moved by 64: Clause 89, page 55, line 18, leave out “, 114 (appeals)” Member's explanatory statement This amendment, alongside others in my name to Clauses 89 and 103, would revert the relevant Clauses back to the ones first introduced in the House of Commons. This would reinstate judicial review principles as the means by which appeals against penalty decisions are heard, rather than such dec…