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  Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill - Clause 4 - The UK Green Investment Bank: financial assistance
  
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  MPs were considering the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill[1]. The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 76, page 3, line 24, at end addâ
  
  :â(7) Subject to the approval by the European Commission of the State aid notification concerning the establishment of the UK Green Investment Bank, the Secretary of State shall provide the European Commission with State aid notification concerning the intention to allow the Bank to borrow, including borrowing from the capital markets.
  
  :(8) The duty in subsection (7) must be fulfilled no later than 31 December 2013.
  
  :(9) It is the duty of HM Treasury and the Secretary of State to eitherâ
  
  :(a) permit the UK Green Investment Bank to begin borrowing from the capital markets by April 2015, or
  
  :(b) to present to Parliament a report within one month of the passage of this Act giving a clear, certain, alternative date for the UK Green Investment Bank to begin borrowing, based on Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts for the public finances and advice from the Green Investment Bank on its need for borrowing powers, both subject to the European Commission approving the State aid notification concerning borrowing.â.
  
  Had it not been rejected this amendment would have affected clause 4[2] of the Bill which was titled ''The UK Green Investment Bank: financial assistance''. 
  
  The purpose of the amendment was described during the debate by Iain Wright MP (Hartlepool, Labour), who said[3]:
  
  :Our amendment would ensure that state aid approval on the green investment bankâs borrowing power would be sought and achieved no later than 31 December 2013
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/enterpriseandregulatoryreform.html Parliament's webpage on the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill (now an Act)]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2012-2013/0061/cbill_2012-20130061_en_2.htm#pt1-l1g4 Clause 4 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill as at the time of the vote]
  * [3] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2012-10-17c.373.0#g378.3 Iain Wright MP (Hartlepool, Labour), House of Commons, 17 October 2012] 
  
  
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