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Finance Bill

The hon. Gentleman will know that our proposals for changing the role of the House of Lords go rather further, and start with a directly elected Chamber. I hope that he will have the opportunity to support them at some point. However, in a second-best world, the proposal to establish a tax law commission is a useful attempt to deal with the simplification of tax statutes. The Liberal Democrats usually sign up to campaigns such as Quash a Quango, so the hon. Gentleman might find it ironic that we are recommending the establishment of a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation.