Clause 3
Compensation Bill [Lords]
1:45 pm
Kevan Jones (North Durham, Labour)
I hope that the outcome of this regulation is that we see the end of claims management companies, and I think that a lot of them will close once the regulations come into force because of the sharp practices of which my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley, West and Penistone (Mr. Clapham) is well aware. The hon. Gentleman says, “process a claim,” and it needs to be exactly that. If it is about filling in a form and passing the matter to a solicitor, that needs to be clear. One of the terrible things that I and my hon. Friends who represent coal mining constituencies have come across is that those involved pass themselves off as having some type of quasi-legal position, when clearly they do not.