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Enterprise Bill [HL]

I was trying to make the point, with rather a long list of what we tried to do in the public sector to put our house in order—alongside

the noble Lord, Lord Stoneham, for a number of years—that we brought in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and a number of changes, and we are trying to measure and look at that. It seemed that what we are doing there and how we are monitoring is relevant to the issue of what the priority should be for the Small Business Commissioner that we are setting up. We believe that the prime focus of the commissioner should be on late payment, particularly when there is an imbalance of power between big business and small business, which has been a recurring issue that noble Lords on both sides of this House have been worrying about.

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Session

2015-16

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee

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