Small Business Commissioner: Late Payments Debate
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Lord Cormack
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Small Business Commissioner: Late Payments
Lord Cormack Excerpts(3 years ago)
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Lord Callanan (Con)
We have a newly appointed Small Business Commissioner who is cracking on with the job. She is currently in discussion with my department about the resourcing that she requires. As I said, so far almost £8 million-worth of debts have been recovered for small businesses, so there is a lot of good work going on, but I totally accept that we need to do more.
Lord Cormack (Con)
My Lords, it is two years since the election manifesto, and a year since the review. Can we not inject some urgency into this? Can my noble friend perhaps define his own interpretation of the word “urgency”?
Lord Callanan (Con)
My noble friend is tempting me to get into dictionary definitions and semantics. As he well knows, I cannot give a precise timescale for the processes of government, but we are working on the issues and we will respond as soon as we can.