§ Mr. Secretary Walker, supported by Mr. Secretary Whitelaw, Mr. Secretary Carr, Mr. Secretary Campbell, Mr. Secretary Peter Thomas, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Mr. Patrick Jenkin, Mr. Attorney General, and Mr. Peter Emery, presented a Bill to provide for the appointment of a Consumer Credit Commissioner, and establish for the protection of consumers a new system, administered by that Commissioner, of licensing and other control of traders concerned with the provision of credit, or the supply of goods on hire or hire-purchase, and their transactions, in place of the present enactments regulating money-lenders, pawnbrokers and hire-purchase traders and their transactions; and for related matters: And the same was read the first time; and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow and to be printed.[Bill 8.]