I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I would never support such interest rates, but the question is whether we should make them illegal. If people are pushed out of the market, DTI research suggests that they will drift into borrowing from criminals, who are self-evidently totally unregulated. We can continue this debate in Committee.
Consumer Credit Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Norman Lamb
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 9 June 2005.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Consumer Credit Bill.
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