Hansard

Regulatory Bodies

Volume 701: debated on Thursday 22 May 2008

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Lord Soley

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether it is standard practice for a regulatory body to insist that a complainant undertakes not to take legal action against the organisation subject to the regulatory body's authority before it will agree to examine the complaint. [HL2936]

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
(Baroness Vadera)

Practice within regulatory bodies, in relation to complaints, varies. Whether it would be appropriate for a regulator to consider a complaint about a particular matter where that matter is the subject of separate ongoing legal proceedings will depend on the circumstances of each case.