Clause 19 - Unfair relationships between
Consumer Credit Bill
2:45 pm
Mr Alistair Burt (Parliamentary Private Secretaries To Leader of the Opposition; North East Bedfordshire, Conservative)
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the opportunity to support his argument. Yesterday, I had to phone my credit card company because I had lost one of my cards. In addition to issuing a replacement card, which was kind, the credit card company immediately offered me another card, notwithstanding the fact that I was ringing only to admit that I was so incompetent that I had already lost one. Almost any contact with the credit card company allows the opportunity for customers to create yet more debt. That is the type of problem that the hon. Gentleman described.