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Enterprise Bill [Lords]

Proceeding contribution from Anna Soubry (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 8 March 2016. It occurred during Debate on bills on Enterprise Bill [Lords].

I am not going to give way because I just want to put on the record my thanks to Lord Smith for his letter, which was sent out by my excellent Parliamentary Private Secretary, my hon. Friend the Member for Rugby (Mark Pawsey), to all Members of this House. I hope all hon. Members, on both sides, have had the opportunity to read it, because it could not be clearer about why what the Government have proposed will ensure and protect those green purposes, and why legislation in this area is absolutely not necessary. One reason why we do not want the Opposition’s new clause 4 to be successful and to put this provision into legislation is that we feel the Office for National Statistics will take the view that what we seek to do will not be achieved in this way—the bank will not be off the books—and that is why it is so important that this is done in the way we propose.

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Reference

607 c161 

Session

2015-16

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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