Part of Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:15 pm on 24 April 2007.
Steve Pound
Labour, Ealing North
12:15,
24 April 2007
I am actually referring to my property.
That brings not into disrepute not only the profession, but the activities of those public-spirited school governors who are trying to make a few bob for their school fete. This issue has become more than an irritant, and I see no sanction or redress in law, because compliance normally carries a 21-day time frame, which is beneficial to the advertisers. I finish by looking with hope and expectation to my right hon. Friend the Minister, who never disappoints, and I am sure that he will not do so on this occasion.
Debate adjourned.—[Steve McCabe.]
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