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Enterprise Bill [HL]

I will certainly look at the point that the noble Lord makes about avoidance contracts, as it were. I was trying to explain the

amendments that have been put down, partly in an exploratory way, and what effect they seem to have. Obviously, what we are doing is debating these issues and trying to find the right way forward. I am informed that a small business can raise a complaint if the larger company seeks to exclude the commissioner from answering. That is a sort of interim answer to the point that he has made about magic circle law firms seeking to get around what we see as a new conversation between big and small companies, initiated by the Small Business Commissioner so that we can improve the culture and, as he said, deal with the more egregious cases, so that that will change how people behave and we will not have large numbers of cases ending up with the Small Business Commissioner.

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Reference

765 c206GC 

Session

2015-16

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee

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