The Chancellor has laid great stress on the fact that the circumstances have to be exceptional to satisfy the tests set out in clause 2. Can he confirm, however, that in clause 11 the Bill gives him the power to grant financial assistance to building societies independently of the exceptional circumstances on which he has just laid such stress?
Banking (Special Provisions) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Stephen Dorrell
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 19 February 2008.
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and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Banking (Special Provisions) Bill.
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