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Finance Bill

May I intervene on a point which, unfortunately, I had to learn the hard way? The hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmond) may not yet have spent enough time in the Standing Committee on the Finance Bill, or in any other part of the debate on the Bill, to learn that, for reasons that have been lost in the mists of time, it is the procedure of the House that if one produces an amendment that raises revenue as opposed to reducing it, it is not selectable for debate, as I found out. So, I advertise the fact that we proposed a nice pert little amendment designed to close a loophole that Treasury Ministers opened up in the Finance Act 2004—