Lord Fox (LD)

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, for his support for this amendment. One point of consternation or otherwise is that I would suggest that the supplier-marketplace relationship is a B2B relationship, not a B2C one. I am not sure where the argument that I am somehow pushing this to a different sort of relationship came from, but I will set that to one side and mull on it later. I thank the Minister for the latter part of his speech and his undertakings to focus the SBC on this issue and to ensure that his department looks at ways of making sure that small businesses understand their rights. That is really the point. The way in which the first part of his speech was set out made it clear that there are all sorts of rights for small businesses in this, but I am not sure that small businesses are necessarily aware of those rights or how they can go about exercising them and being sure that it is not a time-consuming, overwhelming process. It would be useful to hear from the Minister—and perhaps the Small Business Commissioner, as time goes by—how small businesses will be engaged to make sure that they are fighting on an even footing with the marketplaces, many of which are, let us face it, absolutely huge and very difficult organisations to take on. It can be difficult even to find the right person to speak to in them to start with. I thank the Minister for the work that he will do in future, and I beg leave to withdraw Amendment 7.