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Hancock Delighted by Commons Pub Motion
Mike Hancock (MP for Portsmouth South) today expressed his delight at a recently passed motion in the House of Commons which criticised the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills for its recent response to the Select Committee report on pub companies.
Mike said, "While the response does go some way to recognising the problem of unfair practice in the industry, not enough has been done to bring about the introduction of self regulation and the Department gives nothing close to a solution on these issues."
The Motion was unanimously passed which called on the Government to introduce a statutory code of practice which includes a free-of-tie option. There has been substantial evidence that the 'beer tie' as operated by large pub companies is a main cause of the decline of the pub trade.
The Government will now set up an independent review and have the opportunity to review and reinvigorate their efforts into saving thousands of pubs throughout the UK.
The full text of the Motion reads:
That this House believes that the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' proposals for reform of the pub industry fall short of the undertaking given to the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee in July 2010 and that only a statutory code of practice which includes a free-of-tie option with an open market rent review and an independent adjudicator will resolve the contractual problems between the pub companies and their lessees; and calls on the Government to commission a review of self-regulation of the pub industry in the Autumn of 2012 to be conducted by an independent body approved by the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee.
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