Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 10:43 pm on 29 June 2009.
David Drew
Labour, Stroud
10:43,
29 June 2009
Does the Minister accept that one benefit we could bring forward would be to use the home information pack to inform people of what the property they might buy contains?
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