Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Bill

The entire point of building societies was to compete with banks on a truly level playing field—t...

I absolutely agree, but the bureaucracy of Government sometimes gets in the way of things happeni...

I support the Bill, as I hope do Members across all parties. It is good to see something that wil...

I agree. Building societies were certainly part of my life when I was growing up. I got my first ...

It is a huge pleasure able to join Friday business as a Back Bencher and to support this importan...

I should declare that I am a member of three building societies, and until recently I had a mortg...

I completely agree—my right hon. Friend makes an excellent point, and we will come to that in due...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, but we should not see building societies as a panac...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. I do not want to suggest that they are a total panacea; ...

Given the number of people going into banks to do their business these days, it is not unreasonab...

I do. My right hon. and learned Friend amplifies exactly the point I was making. He is right that...

My hon. Friend is making an outstanding speech, and we could philosophise all day, which I am tem...

My hon. Friend makes an excellent point and encourages me to wrap up my philosophising. He is rig...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way again—I must not keep trespassing on the House’s t...

Again, my right hon. and learned Friend makes the point even more eloquently than I was trying to...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Sunderland Central (Julie Elliott) on bringing forward this im...

I am pleased to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent Central (Jo Gideon), who made...

I extend my thanks to the hon. Member for Sunderland Central (Julie Elliott) for bringing this Bi...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Sunderland Central (Julie Elliott) on bringing her Bill to the...

I will keep my comments brief, not least because we have had so many learned and expert speeches,...

As the Member of Parliament for Nationwide, whose headquarters are in Swindon, I am delighted tha...

I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for his intervention. Nationwide does so much i...

I call the shadow Minister.

11.20 am

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland Central (Julie Elliott) on bringing this ...

I, too, congratulate the hon. Member for Sunderland Central (Julie Elliott) on, first, being luck...

With the leave of the House, let me say what a pleasure it has been to speak in a debate in which...