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Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill

Debate between Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville and Baroness Ford
Monday 3rd December 2012

(11 years, 11 months ago)

Grand Committee
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There are ways of doing it. I do not wish to detain the Committee and perhaps I should have a cup of coffee with the noble Lord to explain; I mean that in a helpful way. Bonds are raised against the cash flows from projects. They are raised against an infrastructure project only if the Government underpin it—hence, PFI.

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I encourage the Minister to try to turn not a duckling, but a cygnet, into a swan. A cygnet, in banking and legal terms, would have a greater significance than a ducking.

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