Consumer Credit Bill
9:25 am
Mr Laurence Robertson (Shadow Minister, Economic Affairs; Tewkesbury, Conservative)
I join the Minister in welcoming you to the Committee, Sir John. I do not have his breadth of experience of serving under you on Committees, but I am sure that it will be a very pleasurable and enlightening experience.
The official Opposition are, of course, opposed to programme motions, and we voted against the programming of this Committee because we feel that these things should be more open-ended. Important issues are before us, and we cannot tell how long it will take to discuss them. However, we are where we are, and I have no intention of prolonging this part of the proceedings.