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Business of the House

Will my right hon. Friend find time for a debate on how new wheel-clamping regulations and the licensing system are working? I would particularly like to know how they are working in villages such as mine, where a wheel-clamping firm investigates complaints, so it says, without talking to the complainants. It clamps people if they visit a particular group of shops in the village, and then moves to another group across the road, thus increasing traffic and congestion and partly destroying village life, which has always worked on the principle of give and take. Can we debate how the regulations are working in practice, and what can further be done to regulate such firms?