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Consumer Rights Bill — Report (3rd Day) (26 Nov 2014)

Baroness Shields: ...an option to turn them on again. This process has been under way for the past 18 months. The same is true of the mobile operators, and Minister Vaizey has written to them all this past month to make sure that they are complying with age-related content filters. The points that have been made here are absolutely vital, but to add additional regulation when we are getting voluntary...

Consumer Rights Bill — Report (3rd Day) (26 Nov 2014)

Lord Stoneham of Droxford: ...in recent years. The problems of the opt-in system proposed by the noble Baroness are twofold. The first is that it is possible for too much to be filtered out. Imagine a young person who is not sure about their sexuality. The words “homosexual”, “lesbian” and “transgender” would be filtered out, and organisations such as Stonewall, which does excellent work with confused young...

Consumer Rights Bill — Report (3rd Day) (26 Nov 2014)

Baroness Jolly: ...coal face but at the advice centre—what the issues are. Turning to the noble Lord’s proposal for a levy on payday lenders, I commend his work in the area of debt advice as he stands down. I am sure that he will find something else to do with his time. The Government believe that the key to tackling problem payday lenders is tougher and better regulation. This is already set out. I have...

Consumer Rights Bill — Report (3rd Day) (26 Nov 2014)

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara: ...to insolvency services so as to provide efficiency and to cut the cost of services to the sector and the public. It is important to help people back on to their feet. It is also important to make sure that it does not impact on our overall economy. If we had a long-term strategy for the delivery of debt advice and debt solutions, we would be in a better place. I look forward to the Farnish...

Consumer Rights Bill — Report (3rd Day) (26 Nov 2014)

Baroness Neville-Rolfe: ...it will be collecting further information on energy suppliers’ approaches to settling price differences between payment methods. When Ofwat approves water companies’ charges each year it makes sure that the companies offer a reasonable range of payment options. Ofcom published research in July which looked at the affordability of essential telecom services. It found that the cost of...

Consumer Rights Bill — Report (3rd Day) (26 Nov 2014)

Baroness Neville-Rolfe: ...the cost to the supplier. I do not want to play party politics but we have reduced energy bills, and of course the energy companies have been referred to the Competition and Markets Authority. I am sure that we will all be very interested to see the progress of its study. As to other communications providers such as broadband, while paper bills might not always be provided, the main...

Consumer Rights Bill — Report (3rd Day) (26 Nov 2014)

Baroness Deech: ...worse off. To ensure that the poorest and oldest—who are least likely to have computers and all the expense that attaches to them—should be penalised is quite wrong. In 50 years from now, I am sure that things will be very different, but we have to cope with where we are today. This amendment is eminent good sense.

Consumer Rights Bill — Report (3rd Day) (26 Nov 2014)

Lord Clement-Jones: ...before the Communications Committee the CEO of Ofcom said that Ofcom did not have sufficient powers, he now seems to have agreed with the DCMS to roll over and say that it does have them. I am sure that all sorts of arcane discussions are taking place. I think that there is a big distinction between powers formally to mandate GPL—subject to a merits test, which means that litigation...

Consumer Rights Bill — Report (3rd Day) (26 Nov 2014)

the Bishop of Birmingham: ...loans. The discussion of this amendment in Committee made some strong progress with the issue, and I was pleased to see how many of your Lordships spoke in support of it right across the House. I am sure that many noble Lords will have been irritated by cold calling down the telephone. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s current consultation on nuisance calls is an important...

Consumer Rights Bill — Report (3rd Day) (26 Nov 2014)

Baroness Jolly: I am not sure that those ads are attractive solely to children. The point is that they perhaps attract us all. I am not sure. I have not seen a Wonga advert for a very long time but I understood that the old grannies disappeared some considerable time ago. I will come back to the noble Baroness on that issue. I want to proceed because I have a few things I would like to say. The rules...

Consumer Rights Bill — Report (3rd Day) (26 Nov 2014)

Lord Stoneham of Droxford: ...changes in the conduct of payday lending. I think it is also fair to say that the Government have listened. The Government also have worked through the Financial Conduct Authority to make sure that these payday loan companies are now in retreat. As somebody who has worked in the media, I am always very cautious about structural intervention in advertising, because there are always...

Consumer Rights Bill — Report (3rd Day) (26 Nov 2014)

Lord Mitchell: ...just happen to be watching. The average British family watches more than four hours of television per day; some programmes are children’s programmes and some are not, but one thing we know for sure is that the kids all know the jingles. They laugh at the puppets and are well aware that money is easily available and fun. The children know this, yet the ASA has trivialised their exposure...

Consumer Rights Bill — Report (3rd Day) (26 Nov 2014)

the Bishop of Birmingham: ...changes to the curriculum which made financial education a statutory requirement. That is another welcome change to help combat the inappropriate marketing practices of lenders. Now we need to make sure that that work is not being undone when children go home from school and sit in front of the television. The amendment has gained support both in the House and outside. Major organisations...


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