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Damian Collins Excerpts
1st reading: House of Commons
Tuesday 1st November 2016

(8 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Karen Bradley Portrait Karen Bradley
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I do not want to comment on individual cases that have been brought to any regulator. What I want to see is robust regulation.

Damian Collins Portrait Damian Collins (Folkestone and Hythe) (Con)
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Does the Secretary of State accept that, regardless of her consultation, the current status quo is not acceptable, because we have yet to see the establishment of a robust industry-funded system of arbitration, which gives access to justice—one of Leveson’s key recommendations?

Karen Bradley Portrait Karen Bradley
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My hon. Friend, the Chair of the Select Committee, makes a very good and important point, and one that I want to hear more about during the consultation.