Clause 16 - Time orders
Consumer Credit Bill
2:30 pm
Michael Penning (Hemel Hempstead, Conservative)
Something like 1 million letters go astray each year. I am coming at the issue from a slightly different avenue: from the point of view of a debtor. We have all received parking fines and different bits and bobs. I got something relating to the congestion charge the other day, when I had not even been in London. We assume that everything arrives and that it is all okay. The Government could bring through legislation to say, ''This has to physically happen''. Surely we must realise that at some stage it might not happen. Letters might not arrive. What would happen then? When the Minister read out something a few minutes ago, did he say that electronic communications are legal now?