Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 27: 27: Clause 24 , page 13, line 10, leave out ““supplier”” and insert ““provider”” The noble Lord said: My Lords, I shall speak also to the other amendments in this group. The amendments have arisen as a result of changes to the group of persons to whom the complaints-handling and redress provisions in Part 2 of the Bill apply. Following representations by Ofgem, Clauses 41 and 48 are being amended to extend the Bill’s provisions for redress schemes in the energy sector to include the holders of licences to distribute electricity and gas transporters. The changes mean that the complaints-handling and redress provisions will now be applicable to a wider group than can reasonably be defined by the term ““supplier”” which is used in the current drafting. The term ““provider”” better captures all those concerned. The amendments are necessary to make the minor drafting improvements needed across the Bill to substitute the term ““provider”” for ““supplier””, and include a consequential change to the Long Title. I beg to move. On Question, amendment agreed to.