Enterprise Initiative

Part of Prayers – in the House of Commons at 9:58 am on 4 March 1988.

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Photo of Mr Paddy Ashdown Mr Paddy Ashdown , Yeovil 9:58, 4 March 1988

I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman later.

Even in the case of the larger corporations, where one can see that in the interests of the consumers, the setting up of watchdog bodies might be able to control the huge insensitive corporations, such as the privatised BT, the watchdog bodies are created in a manner which makes them almost totally toothless. However I agree with the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington that the consumer is a vital element and I should like the market place to be run by the individual choice of the consumer rather than by the power of the monopoly producer, of the mass producer and supplier.