Clause 53
Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill
11:30 am
Lorely Burt (Shadow Minister (Small Business), Trade & Industry; Solihull, Liberal Democrat)
The idea behind including a minimum competency standard is that compulsory training could be introduced, but in a flexible way. I think that it would be for the industry to determine what those compulsory, but minimum standards ought to be.
The National Association of Estate Agents fully supports this new clause, because it creates a level playing field and empowers and encourages the good estate agents and attempts to weed out the bad. The Government have previously made some encouraging remarks. They have said that they will look at this. Has the Minister had an opportunity to reflect further and can he give us any assurances?