Baroness Primarolo
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(10 years, 10 months ago)
Commons ChamberOrder. I inform Members that there will now be an eight-minute time limit on all Back-Bench contributions to this debate, as a large number of Members wish to speak.
Does my hon. Friend agree that, although real-time information is essential, it would be good if the companies checked any information at all? When I conducted some research, I made an application for a loan under the name Boris Peep, using my constituency address as the address for the individual. The loan was approved by WageDayAdvance. I then received—
I then received numerous texts saying, “Hi Boris, your loan application has been approved.” That surely shows that no real-time information was used at all.