§ Mrs. GillanTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department when his Department will allow consumer protection bodies to seek injunctions to stop traders contravening consumer protection rights. [7781]
§ Mr. HoonOn the 23 May the Lord Chancellor announced that he had decided that a change in the law was needed to open up the courts in England and Wales to allow representative actions. This would allow an organisation such as a consumer group to take action on behalf of an individual whose rights had been infringed. A working group is being set up to consider to whom the new rights and duties night extend and to work on the new procedures and rules.