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  Opposition Day - Pub Companies
  
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  @ MP voted aye for a statutory code of practice for large pub companies, requiring them to offer the option of a rent only leases. 
  @ MP voted no against a statutory code of practice for large pub companies, requiring them to offer the option of a rent only leases. 
  
  
  The majority of MPs voted against a statutory code of practice for large pub companies, requiring them to offer the option of a rent only leases. The majority of MPs also voted against an open market rent review and an independent adjudicator to regulate big pub companies.
  
  The text of the motion rejected in this vote was:
  
  :That this House
  :''notes'' that two years have passed since its resolution on pub companies of 12 January 2012;
  :''remains'' of the view that the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee was right to state in its [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmbis/314/31402.htm Fourth Report, on Consultation on a Statutory Code for Pub Companies, HC 314], that only a statutory code of practice which included a mandatory rent-only option for pub companies which own over 500 pubs, an open market rent review and an independent adjudicator would resolve the contractual problems between the big pub companies and their lessees;
  :''further notes'' that pub closures are increasing, and believes that the Government should by July 2014 bring forward legislative proposals to introduce a statutory code of practice of the kind recommended by the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee.
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