I have been considering the arguments that have been put forward on exemptions, and I wonder whether my hon. Friend has a view on the matter of strategic importance raised by one of my constituents, Graham Owen, who is a chartered insurance practitioner. He has suggested that small suppliers of such services should be exempt because, with a turnover of, say, less than £5,000 a year, they are unlikely to be ripping people off on a large scale or indulging in the kind of scams that we have been hearing about. He has suggested that there should be a turnover threshold of, say, £5,000 a year in respect of the total of the five categories that the Minister has identified, below which a company should be exempt from the regulations. Does my hon. Friend have a view on that? Would he, like me, be interested to hear what the Minister has to say about that suggestion?
Compensation Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Lembit Opik
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 17 July 2006.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Compensation Bill (HL).
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