Consumer Scotland Bill: Stage 3

Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at on 6 May 2020.

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Photo of Richard Leonard Richard Leonard Labour

Let me move on to the other arguments—[

Interruption

.] I want to make it absolutely clear for the record that Mr Hepburn and I have met to discuss this amendment. In the interest of consensus, he could have offered to meet to discuss it in more recent days, not least because the stage 3 proceedings were postponed a few weeks ago.

The other point that I want to make is this. As I said, if we as a Parliament are in favour of extending the definition of “consumer” to include small businesses, it seems rather odd that we cannot extend it to include communities. I listed some examples of legislation that this Parliament has passed where the entity of a community is seen as an important part of the fabric of our society.