Payday Loans Debate

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Lord Elystan-Morgan

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Payday Loans

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Tuesday 10th January 2012

(12 years, 4 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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My Lords, can the noble Baroness kindly tell the House what use is made by judges in England and Wales of the statutory powers vested in them that allow them to ameliorate or even to disallow conditions in a loan agreement that are unconscionably harsh upon a vulnerable borrower?

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I do not have the answer to that question today, but I will certainly look into it, write to the noble Lord and put the answer in the Library.