New Clause 3
Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill
6:15 pm
Susan Kramer (Shadow Secretary of State for Trade & Industry, Trade & Industry; Richmond Park, Liberal Democrat)
Further to that point of order, Mr. Weir. Thank you for the opportunity to speak the last words in the gathering of the Committee. I express my thanks, on behalf of my hon. Friend the Member for Solihull, to you and to Mr. Caton for chairing the Committee and for your patience with people whohave relatively little experience of Committee work. Although many of the amendments that we wish had been accepted were not, there was real movement in the course of the Committee’s deliberations.
The underlying issues and shared concern across the House that the Bill should eventually be a successful Act led to positive exchanges with which I was really pleased. I was a little saddened by the tiny bit of sniping at the end, which perhaps reminded us of the place that we are in. However, the Committee has been overwhelmingly positive and we feel that real progress has been made. We hope that more can be made on Report. My thanks to everyone who has beeninvolved, and I return the compliments to Ministers, Government Members and the Conservative Opposition as well as to yourself, Mr. Weir, andthe officials.