Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee
10 March 2026
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Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee House of Commons
00:17 - 00:24
Speaker 1
The draft employment draft rights act 2025 investigatory powers consequential amendments regulations 2026.
00:25 - 00:28
Speaker 2
I call the minister to move the motion.
00:29 - 01:51
Speaker 3
Thank you, mister Stewart. It's a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship. I beg to move that the committee has considered the draft Employment Rights Act 2025 and vestigatory powers consequential amendments regulations 2026. These regulations are narrow, necessary, and strictly consequential. When parliament passed the Employment Rights Act last year, it took the clear policy decision to bring the criminal enforcement functions of the Gangmasters and Labor Abuse Authority into the new Fair Work Agency.
Those functions include the ability for the GLAA as provided for in schedule four of the Investigatory Powers Act to obtain authorizations to acquire communications data in the most serious cases of labor exploitation. The sole purpose of this instrument is to ensure the capability that capability continues seamlessly when the Fair Work Agency becomes operational in April. It updates the statutory reference that currently names the GLAA so that the same powers are available to the new agency when carrying out the serious exploitation investigations previously undertaken by the GLA. So let me be clear about what these regulations do not do. They do not create new investigatory powers.
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