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[email protected] 1117 5 MARCH 2010 Grocery Market Ombudsman Bill 1118 David Cairns (Inverclyde) (Lab): I congratulate my House of Commons hon. Friend on bringing forward his Bill. Will it address the non-grocery products that supermarkets sell? I am Friday 5 March 2010 thinking, for example, of petrol, whereby the local pricing policy of large grocery retailers leads to a great The House met at half-past Nine o’clock distortion. In Inverclyde, which has some prosperous areas but also a lot of deprivation, the petrol prices that grocery retailers set are higher than those in many much PRAYERS more prosperous areas of Scotland. I am grateful to a The Chairman of Ways and Means took the Chair as constituent of mine, John MacNeil, who has driven all Deputy Speaker (Standing Order No. 3). around Scotland pricing petrol. Will my hon. Friend’s Bill address the supermarkets’ local pricing policy on Mr. Andrew Dismore (Hendon) (Lab): I beg to move, that product? That the House sit in private. Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 163). Albert Owen: My hon. Friend makes an important Question negatived.