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I congratulate Claire Baker on securing this debate on a tenant deposit protection scheme, which I am sure that most of us would agree is an important subject. My colleague Robert Brown has quite rightly outlined the plight of many university students.
We have moved away a little from points of order. I want to develop what Robert Brown said. As part of our points of order procedure, if things have been said deliberately to mislead—if someone lied—of course the matter should be taken seriously.
The member reflects on a number of points that I raised in reply to Robert Brown’s question. I will meet midway: I think that there are possibilities in the borrowing.
For us, the sector is of enormous significance, and it is a success story, as Gavin Brown said—current and historical. That is because people try hard.
Of course, that is an aspiration of members on the Government benches; I am not sure where Mr Brown sits on the spectrum, but I know him to be an aspirational young man so I am sure that he wants the Parliament to have more such powers.