My hon. Friend is absolutely right to make the case for a level playing field when it comes to the payment of smaller suppliers by larger organisations. He has also made the point about the human and social cost of late payments to the people who run and work in small businesses. Does he agree that it is incredibly short-sighted of larger businesses to disrupt their own supply chains by delaying payments in that way? Is not that another reason to deal with this issue once and for all by adopting these important amendments?
Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Bill Esterson
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 18 November 2014.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill.
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