Equitable Life Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Equitable Life

Kemi Badenoch Excerpts
Thursday 31st January 2019

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Bob Blackman Portrait Bob Blackman
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Clearly there is a debt of honour, and we need to make sure the people who have been victims are properly compensated.

Kemi Badenoch Portrait Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Saffron Walden) (Con)
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Will my hon. Friend give way one more time?

Bob Blackman Portrait Bob Blackman
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Given that my hon. Friend has been sitting beside me, I will give way to her before I move on.

Kemi Badenoch Portrait Mrs Badenoch
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I thank my hon. Friend; he has been exceedingly generous in giving way.

I can only echo the many points that Members on both sides of the House have made about this issue. Many of my constituents have written the most heart-breaking stories about how their lives were destroyed by this scandal. What is my hon. Friend’s view of the fact that no one has been prosecuted or sent to prison for this scandal?