I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman’s point about the role of the courts. Does he accept that the reason why many Opposition Members believe the Bill is important and helpful to farmers, producers, consumers and, ultimately, supermarkets, is the imbalance in economic power and in the relationship between small suppliers and the supermarkets? That the resources available to large supermarkets are vastly disproportionate to those available to small suppliers would be demonstrated in a court process.
Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Andy Sawford
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 26 February 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill [Lords].
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