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Debt Advice and Debt Management

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

536 c1149-88 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Yvonne Fovargue | 536 c1174 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman might be interested in a text that a colleague has just received—the Minister mig...

Gordon Banks | 536 c1151 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is giving the Minister a Christmas list—and the Minister will recall that this time l...

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Ed Davey | 536 c1183-8 (Link to this contribution) This has been an excellent debate with contributions from all parts of the House. I will try to do c...

Damian Hinds | 536 c1170-2 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) and my hon. Friend the Member fo...

Nick Boles | 536 c1178 (Link to this contribution) I do not. I think that cold calling is a terrible idea, but I have good news for the hon. Gentleman:...

Ian Murray | 536 c1178-83 (Link to this contribution) This afternoon's debate has shown the passion of Members across the Chamber about this important sub...

Alex Cunningham | 536 c1188 (Link to this contribution) I, too, believe that we have had a good and measured debate this afternoon. I am also grateful to th...

Yvonne Fovargue | 536 c1161 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the hon. Gentleman mentions visits, because I have had two cases of bailiffs visiting...

George Hollingbery | 536 c1161-2 (Link to this contribution) A small trawl of the internet produces reports of any number of similar cases in which the circumsta...

Nicholas Dakin | 536 c1162-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Meon Valley (George Hollingbery), who made a very int...

Damian Hinds | 536 c1164-5 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to see that although it is the first of the new month, the hon. Gentleman has not taken...

Nicholas Dakin | 536 c1165 (Link to this contribution) The moustache is having an encore for today and will be removed tomorrow. The hon. Gentleman is rig...

Yvonne Fovargue | 536 c1165 (Link to this contribution) The other advantage of the independent database owned by the regulator is that if anyone researches ...

Nicholas Dakin | 536 c1165-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a significant point. The devil is in the detail—I can see that the Minister is ...

Baroness Burt of Solihull | 536 c1166-8 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) on securing this debate and on h...

Justin Tomlinson | 536 c1168 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Solihull (Lorely Burt), who has been a long...

Andrew Bingham | 536 c1168 (Link to this contribution) With his usual modesty, my hon. Friend just briefly mentioned the campaign for financial education i...

Justin Tomlinson | 536 c1168-70 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. He has been extremely supportive of our ongoing campai...

Yvonne Fovargue | 536 c1173 (Link to this contribution) At present, however, even the most up-to-date credit reference agency updates only once a fortnight....

Damian Hinds | 536 c1173-4 (Link to this contribution) That is a perfectly legitimate and credible line of argument. The hon. Lady mentioned, however, that...

John Pugh | 536 c1172 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's speech is teaching me a great deal, but is he implying that debts can be afford...

Damian Hinds | 536 c1172-3 (Link to this contribution) Obviously credit can be affordable without a usury cap. It depends on the price that is set. I am in...

Nick Boles | 536 c1175-8 (Link to this contribution) This has been a fascinating debate and I congratulate the hon. Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunni...

Alex Cunningham | 536 c1178 (Link to this contribution) I have a simple question for the hon. Gentleman. Does he really believe that cold calling should sti...

Damian Hinds | 536 c1174-5 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. Remarkably, the hon. Lady might even discover that such texts seem to come from the Governme...

Alex Cunningham | 536 c1149 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of debt advice and debt management services...

Gordon Banks | 536 c1149 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend as concerned as me about the cuts to the Money Advice Service just now and how det...

Alex Cunningham | 536 c1149-51 (Link to this contribution) I certainly am, and I am going to deal with the issue later. I understand that a considerable number...

Yvonne Fovargue | 536 c1158-9 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree. My hon. Friend the Member for Stockton North had a point when he said that we ne...

George Hollingbery | 536 c1159-61 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) on securing this important debat...

Paul Blomfield | 536 c1156 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share the concerns of Peter Hemmingfield, a debt team supervisor in my constitue...

Yvonne Fovargue | 536 c1155-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Chatham and Aylesford (Tracey Crouch), who made a tho...

Paul Blomfield | 536 c1156 (Link to this contribution) You are absolutely right, Mr Deputy Speaker; I was just coming to the end. Peter Hemmingfield talks ...

Speaker | 536 c1156 (Link to this contribution) Order. Unfortunately, interventions have to be short; I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is just comi...

Damian Hinds | 536 c1157 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that the United States consumer credit market is rather different from the ...

Yvonne Fovargue | 536 c1156-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. As for the idea that people can manage by themselves, that is not happe...

Gordon Banks | 536 c1158 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a forceful point. When a person is desperate and sitting at their computer sear...

Yvonne Fovargue | 536 c1157-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree, but the disadvantages of the payday loan industry are greater than those in the home credit...

Tracey Crouch | 536 c1154-5 (Link to this contribution) I am aware that the BIS Committee is looking into this and I hope that its recommendations when it h...

Tracey Crouch | 536 c1153 (Link to this contribution) As it happens, I was about to tell the House about an instance of which I have recently learned. An ...

Margot James | 536 c1154 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that the Select Committee on Business, Innovation and Skills is currently un...

Speaker | 536 c1152 (Link to this contribution) That is not a point of order. It is for the Secretary of State to decide whether he will comment. Th...

Karl Turner | 536 c1151-2 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. In the previous debate, I raised the issue of the disgusting...

Alex Cunningham | 536 c1151 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend steals my final point. He will find out in a few moments that I entirely agree with w...

Baroness Burt of Solihull | 536 c1153 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that all Members will have tales to tell about some of the rogue companies that cynically ...

Tracey Crouch | 536 c1153 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point. We all see people in our constituencies who have been tied in...

Gordon Banks | 536 c1153 (Link to this contribution) I just want briefly to outline an issue in my constituency. One of my constituents was making paymen...

Tracey Crouch | 536 c1152-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham). I attended the Back...

Subjects

Debts Advisory services Insolvency

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