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Building Societies (Funding) and Mutual Societies (Transfers) Bill

I am extremely positively encouraged by Opposition Members' forensic scrutiny of the Bill during today's debate. I am grateful to the hon. Member for Bournemouth, West (Sir John Butterfill) for presenting the Bill and congratulate him on its success; it is a credit not only to him but also to the plethora of outside organisations, which I support, with which he has been working. The measure will lead to long-lived improvements in our economy. I reassure Opposition Members that there are no scary and subterfugeal attempts to achieve anything from the amendments that is not blindingly obvious. I shall use the few moments available to me to—