Part of Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:15 pm on 24 April 2007.
David Gauke
Conservative, South West Hertfordshire
12:15,
24 April 2007
The hon. Gentleman makes a useful point, but I have one concern with the direction in which his argument is running. In my Constituency, for example, local primary schools advertise their fairs in conjunction with local estate agents. Throughout the village in which I live, Chorley Wood, one sees what appear to be estate agent boards that are in fact advertising fairs for local primary schools. That is quite helpful to those schools; I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would not want to suggest anything that would make such advertising more difficult.
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