§ 19. Mr. QuinnTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if she will make a statement on establishing a statutory right to interest on the late payment of debt. [19887]
§ Mrs. RocheI am delighted to say that the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Bill was introduced in the other place on 10 December and published the next day. We expect the second Reading to take place on Monday 12 January.
§ Mrs. GillanTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if she will place in the Library copies of all the responses to the Green Paper on "Improving the Payment Culture". [21129]
§ Mrs. Roche[holding answer 16 December 1997]: A schedule of all responses received, except those where the author specifically requested that their response not be published, was placed in the Library of the House upon publication of the Bill, on Thursday 11 December 1997. The full responses were, in accordance with current guidelines from the Library of the House, placed in the DTI library.
The House Library will be able to obtain copies of these responses from the DTI's library on request.