Clause 12 - Notice of default sums
Consumer Credit Bill
2:15 pm
Charles Hendry (Shadow Minister, Trade & Industry; Wealden, Conservative)
May I assist the Minister by giving him some further time for additional scribbling to be done? It is an important element of the matter; may I ask him to go further and say whether it would be required to be given in Braille? How does the lender know that somebody needs the information in Braille? We are talking about institutions that have millions of clients. How do they know the ability of each one to understand English, how partially sighted they are and what learning difficulties they may have? If it is to be compulsory to provide material in Braille there must be an obligation on the lenders to know how partially sighted, or fully sighted, their customers are, which seems to me to be impossible.