Late last night the House of Lords passed an amendment to the Public Bodies Bill which removed the Security Industry Authority (SIA) from the schedule of Quangos set to be abolished, reports Bobby Logue on behalf of SMT Online and Infologue.com. The amendment removes the Security Industry Authority from the list of public bodies that the Government can abolish by secondary legislation. The Minister of State, Home Office, Baroness Neville-Jones told the Lords that it remained the Government’sclear intention to abolish the SIA in its present form and transfer the powers to a new regulatory regime by the end of 2013.

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