Part 1: The Small Business Commissioner Paragraphs 18 to 21
Paragraph 18 inserts reference to the Small Business Commissioner into Schedule 2 to the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 (departments etc. subject to investigation), so that the Small Business Commissioner may be subject to investigation by the Parliamentary Ombudsman.
	Paragraphs 19 and 20 insert references into the relevant schedules to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 and the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975, so that neither the Commissioner nor any Deputy Commissioner may be a member of Parliament or of the Northern Ireland Assembly. This is in order to avoid a conflict of interest.
	Paragraph 21 adds the Small Business Commissioner to the list of public authorities covered by the Freedom of Information Act 2000.