division_name: Opposition Day &#8212; [18th Allotted Day] &#8212; Pub Companies
motion: <p class="" pid="a.160.3/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move,</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.160.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That this House notes that two years have passed since its resolution on pub companies of <phrase class="date" code="2012-01-12">12 January 2012</phrase>; remains of the view that the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee was right to state in its 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.</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.169.0/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from &#8220;House&#8221; to the end of the Question and add:</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="a.169.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;welcomes the opportunity to debate the issue of fairness in the relationship between publicans and pub owning companies; notes the concerns, acknowledged by the Government in January 2013, about the failure of pub company self-regulation to rebalance risk and reward between the companies and their tenants and lessees; recognises the excellent work and the four Reports that the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee and predecessor Committees have produced over the years on this issue; further notes that the previous Government failed to take any position on this important issue until February 2010, just two months before the dissolution of Parliament and the end of its term in office; further notes that this Government held the first ever consultation to explore how best to protect tenants and lessees through a statutory code of practice backed by an independent adjudicator;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.210.6/1" pwmotiontext="yes">Question put (<phrase class="standing-order" code="31(2)" pwmotiontext="yes">Standing Order No. 31(2)</phrase>), That the original words stand part of the Question.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.210.6/2" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="a.210.6/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 244, Noes 311.</p>