Derek McDowell (Labour)

The section envisages farming out the process of sending out notices.

Perhaps the Minister of State will talk us through that and tell us his intentions. I notice subsection (15) allows the Minister to enter into an agreement, presumably with a private sector company, to serve the notices.

The process set out in the section seems very cumbersome, involving three or four different agencies before somebody is disqualified and we have a record of it. I do not have a solution for making it easier, but it appears to be a very cumbersome process.