New clause 4 - CHANGES IN CREDIT LIMITS
Consumer Credit Bill
6:15 pm
Gerry Sutcliffe (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Employment Relations and Consumer Affairs), Department of Trade and Industry; Bradford South, Labour)
On a point of order, Mr. Taylor. It is usual at this juncture to thank you and your co-Chairman, Mr. Conway, for your excellent chairmanship of our proceedings on a Bill that has been brought before the House before but that needed to be scrutinised in detail by Committee members. I pay tribute to that scrutiny, to the amendments tabled by the Official Opposition and the Liberal Democrats, and to the contribution made by all Committee members in trying to get the Bill through appropriately. I recognise that there are some issues that we shall return to on Report, and I am sure that the Bill will be given a good airing in the other place.
I also thank the Committee secretariat, the Hansard reporters, the police, the Committee Clerks, my DTI team who have supported me throughout the proceedings, and the Labour members of the Committee, including my hon. Friend the Member for Eccles, who has a tendency to yawn on numerous occasions, particularly when I am speaking.