Clause 5
Compensation Bill [Lords]
6:15 pm
Bridget Prentice (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs; Lewisham East, Labour)
Let me answer the point about putting an exemption in the Bill raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley, West and Penistone. I do not want an exemption to be put in the Bill because that would not give the Secretary of State the flexibility to deal with rogue behaviour in the way that I have described. If the provision were in the Bill and rogue behaviour occurred, we would have to have to act through primary legislation and the consumer could continue to suffer.