Clause 203

Part of Banking Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 6:45 pm on 28 October 2008.

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Photo of Mark Todd Mark Todd Labour, South Derbyshire 6:45, 28 October 2008

It just occurs to me that, as the hon. Member for South-West Hertfordshire said, there presumably must lie some competitive advantage in being granted the right to issue notes, which we are sanctioning a continuance of; otherwise, unless these brave corporations are all charities, they would have discontinued that activity. I wonder whether anyone has assessed that advantage and quantified it.