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Farepak

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

537 c325-33WH 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Lord Beith | 537 c328WH (Link to this contribution) I commend the hon. Lady for securing the debate. It is important that people are very careful about ...

Jessica Morden | 537 c328-9WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention. Obviously, that is where the CPA and self-re...

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John Hayes | 537 c329WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to be able to respond to this debate, Mr Weir, and I am grateful to the hon. ...

Tony Cunningham | 537 c329WH (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that what makes the situation even worse—it is bad enough that it is Christ...

John Hayes | 537 c329-30WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, that is true. It is a good point. The hon. Gentleman made that point in an earlier intervention...

Jessica Morden | 537 c330WH (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister have any idea how long the process will take, and will he address the issue of the...

John Hayes | 537 c330WH (Link to this contribution) That is a fair question, but since the matter is now part of a legal process it is difficult for me ...

Robert Buckland | 537 c330WH (Link to this contribution) In the spirit of that constructive approach, may I ask the Minister the question posited by the hon....

John Hayes | 537 c330WH (Link to this contribution) I will try to deal in my remarks with some of the actions that were taken, and if I do not cover tha...

Nick Smith | 537 c330-1WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Nick Smith | 537 c331WH (Link to this contribution) It is great that the Minister has shown such sympathy for the victims of this injustice. Such scheme...

John Hayes | 537 c331WH (Link to this contribution) I will give way briefly, but I want to make some progress because I am short on time.

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 537 c325WH (Link to this contribution) My constituent, Jean McLardy, has given me a Farepak customer payment card that belonged to her moth...

Jessica Morden | 537 c325-6WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. She made her incredibly valuable point very well. She h...

Jessica Morden | 537 c325WH (Link to this contribution) Although I am happy to have secured this debate, I am extremely unhappy that I felt compelled to app...

Tony Cunningham | 537 c325WH (Link to this contribution) Is it worth reminding people that the company knew when it took money from people that it was not ab...

Jessica Morden | 537 c325WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. He makes an incredibly valid point. The people involved...

Jessica Morden | 537 c327WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her intervention. I agree that the matter is downright wrong, and I hope ...

Robert Buckland | 537 c327WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the hon. Lady secured this debate and that she raised the point about transparency...

Jessica Morden | 537 c326-7WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, which was well made. Many victims have called for Sir C...

Susan Elan Jones | 537 c327WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for securing this important debate. Does she agree that some of the ...

Tony Cunningham | 537 c326WH (Link to this contribution) Let us be honest. If someone broke into a house and stole such an amount of money, they would find t...

Jessica Morden | 537 c328WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is exactly right. There are a whole range of prepayment schemes. She mentioned prepay...

Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 537 c328WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the problems highlighted is that the victims have been treated...

Jessica Morden | 537 c327WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is exactly right. Although my constituent has been incredibly tenacious, from her...

Robert Buckland | 537 c327-8WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has come to the fundamental point. Five years ago, a loophole was identified. Because ...

John Hayes | 537 c331-3WH (Link to this contribution) When I have made some progress, if I have not satisfactorily covered that matter I give a commitment...

Jessica Morden | 537 c328WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. He goes precisely to the crux of the issue: self-r...

Subjects

Compensation Consumers Insolvency Protection Farepak BDO LLP

Link

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