Debate on small businesses and HBOS in Reading
3 June 2009 (updated on 22 April 2010)
South East Cambridgeshire MP, James Paice, opens Westminster Hall adjournment debate on the treatment of small businesses by the Reading office of HBOS.
- Commons Hansard: Treatment of small businesses by the Reading office of HBOS
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