Oral Answers to Questions

Anne McLaughlin Excerpts

Tuesday 15th December 2020 Commons Chamber

[Nadhim Zahawi]

Clearly, the UK’s relationship with the EU is subject to ongoing negotiations, but as we leave the EU the life sciences sector will be supported through the life sciences sector deals that I mentioned, and a new, innovative regulatory framework. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has proven itself globally to be one of the finest regulators in the world, and new international regulatory collaborations are on the way too.

[Anne McLaughlin (Glasgow North East) (SNP)]

What steps his Department is taking to support people who were mis-sold a Green Deal loan more than six years ago.

[The Minister for Business, Energy and Clean Growth (Kwasi Kwarteng)]

The hon. Lady will be aware that too many people have suffered from mis-selling by a small number of green deal providers. We are doing all we can to provide redress where appropriate, as enabled by the green deal regulations.

[Anne McLaughlin [V]]

If someone is mis-sold something, there is a six-year time bar to get redress, unless they were not aware of it at the time, in which case they have three more years from when they became aware. There is a significant number of victims of green deal mis-selling, many of whom were very elderly and thought they must have misunderstood, but they did not; they were duped. Why are they, after all they have been through, being denied that extra three-year rule and access to justice?