“The Secretary of State may give financial assistance (by way of grant, loan, or guarantee, or in any other form) or make other payments to a person for the establishment or maintenance of—

(a) a redress scheme, or

(b) a scheme that would be a redress scheme if it were approved or designated under section (

This new clause, to be inserted after NC16, would allow the Secretary of State to give financial assistance for the establishment or maintenance of redress schemes.

Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.