Will the Minister assure the House that when he talks about a powerful institution to support the transition to a green economy, he is talking about a bank that will be able to borrow? I regret that the Bill contains no commitment to that borrowing. If the bank were able to use the public spending allocated as a capital base, it would be able to borrow, and if it were in line with, for example, the Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten in the Netherlands, it would be able to make approximately £150 billion of extensive loans. That would give far greater and more powerful support to the green economy than the funding currently allocated to it.
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Chris Huhne
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 17 October 2012.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill.
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