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Enterprise Bill [HL]

Proceeding contribution from Lord Mendelsohn (Labour) in the House of Lords on Monday, 26 October 2015. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Enterprise Bill [HL].

I have a brief question before the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, rises. We are different from the Australian example in that we define small business and who this operates for and they do not, and in relation to complaints information, signposting and other things. There is a question about how the Australian system evolved—in Victoria it happened by accident and in all the rest by design. It allowed larger businesses that dealt with small businesses to

make complaints, raise questions or seek information. Famously—and this will interest the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson—one large company used the Australian Small Business Commissioner to help renegotiate franchises to the betterment of small business. Would that be excluded with this legislative architecture?

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Reference

765 c132GC 

Session

2015-16

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee

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