Part of Debt Relief (Developing Countries) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:30 am on 9th March 2010.
I do not disagree with the hon. Gentleman. To be fair, the word retrospective is used in the explanatory notes. I do not think there is an argument that the provision is explicitly designed to be retrospective for the reasons we debated, and rightly so. I do not disagree with his point that the situation is the equivalent of an insolvency arrangement.