Business of the House Debate

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Department: Leader of the House

Business of the House

Henry Smith Excerpts
Thursday 3rd March 2016

(8 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Henry Smith Portrait Henry Smith (Crawley) (Con)
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Unfortunately, a number of my constituents have recently been the victim of a substandard building firm that, when challenged, liquidates itself only to quickly re-establish itself in a new guise. May we have a debate on such abuse of company law?

Chris Grayling Portrait Chris Grayling
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It is obviously disturbing when one hears of such incidents. The Business Secretary will be here in 10 days’ time, and current procedures for director disqualification allow members of the public to lodge direct complaints when such issues arise, so that they can be investigated.