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Mark Durkan Excerpts
Thursday 31st March 2011

(13 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mark Durkan Portrait Mark Durkan (Foyle) (SDLP)
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The Minister might be aware that the Office of Fair Trading is receiving complaints about the market dominance and business practices of Electoral Reform Services. Will he encourage the OFT to be more attentive and responsive to those complaints than it has been to previous complaints?

Ed Davey Portrait Mr Davey
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The hon. Gentleman will know that the OFT is an independent body, and I am sure that he would not want the Government to breach the law by intervening in that way. However, I am sure that the OFT has heard his question.