My day at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference

Yesterday I attended the Liberal Democrat party conference and witnessed the party pass an amendment to the Quality of Life motion calling for statutory debt management regime to be put in place to ensure minimum standards, control of fees and the outlawing of front-loaded charges. As the Managing Director of Payplan it is a move I wholeheartedly support, as we have been at the forefront of the campaign to introduce regulation into the debt management sector.

In his speech proposing the amendment, Gareth Epps an activist and former counsellor from Reading, said: “there is no greater personal tragedy than unmanageable, all-consuming debt. The impact that this can have on an individual’s quality of life is significant.”

The amendment was successfully carried, after being seconded by Linda Jack, and now has the effect of handing the party’s mandate to Liberal Democrat Minister, Ed Davey MP, to introduce such a system.

I believe this is an important milestone in the campaign for regulation and I look forward to seeing the Minister take this forward with his Westminster and Whitehall colleagues.

In his speech proposing the amendment, Gareth Epps the MP for Reading, said: “there is no greater personal tragedy than unmanageable, all-consuming debt. The impact that this can have on an individual’s quality of life is significant.”

I believe this is an important milestone in the campaign for regulation and I look forward to seeing the Minister take this forward with his Westminster and Whitehall colleagues.