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Enterprise Bill [HL]

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

My Lords, I thank the Minister and all those who have taken part in this short debate. On the subject of payday lending, although I have worked very hard on this, never have the words passed my lips that I wanted to abolish or abandon it; it just needed to be regulated. Indeed, were it to disappear, somebody else would step into its place—people we really do not want to know about. It was never our objective to do that.

On the EIS and similar schemes, we also received confirmation that the Institute of Directors was supportive of the points we have been making that these need a lot more publicity. We have not really addressed that but the IoD is very keen that more people know about them. When we are here discussing these issues, we automatically assume that the world knows. It does not. It tends to be a long way behind the curve. We feel that the commissioner should have the responsibility for publicising the EIS. With that, I beg leave to withdraw Amendment 8.

About this proceeding contribution

Reference

765 c139GC 

Session

2015-16

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee

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