Treasury and Work and Pensions

Part of Orders of the Day – in the House of Commons at 7:10 pm on 27 November 2006.

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Photo of Jim Devine Jim Devine PPS (Rt Hon Rosie Winterton, Minister of State), Department of Health 7:10, 27 November 2006

As a result of Farepak's collapse, hundreds of thousands of hard-working families have, in effect, seen Christmas cancelled. Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the Labour Government of 1948 introduced the Companies Bill, section 332 of which would have protected those families? However, the Act of 1985, which he is making light comment on, destroyed the right of those people to get their money back.