Consumer Credit Bill
9:25 am
Mr Gerry Sutcliffe (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Employment Relations, Competition and Consumers), Department of Trade and Industry; Bradford South, Labour)
On a point of order, Sir John. I should like to deal with an issue that arose on Second Reading, on which some hon. Members would like clarification. Several Members asked whether the Bill could allow for lay representation in Scotland for time order applications. We discussed that with the Scottish Executive and the Scotland Office, and there is considerable support for permitting lay representation in time order applications in Scotland. As I said on Second Reading, the Government would like all people in the United Kingdom to be able to exercise their rights in the same way. Therefore, Sir John, we will return to that issue on Report.