My right hon. Friend will be aware that many of the small shareholders are former employees of Northern Rock who saved in the company savings plan at their retirement. If the Government had not interceded last September, is it not the case that those shareholders would have got nothing, and that they would likewise have got nothing if we had followed the barmy suggesting of putting the bank into administration?
Banking (Special Provisions) Bill
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Lord Beamish
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 19 February 2008.
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Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Banking (Special Provisions) Bill.
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