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Business of the House

May we have an urgent debate on corporate governance, particularly the corporate structure of the Tchenguiz family? We know them well in the north of England because they run a company called the Estates and Management group, which gives a tough time to elderly and vulnerable leaseholders in many of the northern towns, using all sorts of strategies to extract money. They have a corporate structure that the House of Commons Library describes not just as a chain of companies, but as a spaghetti of companies registered in the Virgin Islands, the Bahamas and elsewhere. May we have a debate on the company, which is involved in a major takeover of a restaurant and pub chain? Let us find out exactly who owns it, where it is owned and how it conducts its business.