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Finance (No. 2) Bill

: Does my hon. Friend agree that there are two separate points, the first of which is how best to achieve the objectives that are shared across the House? It is difficult to disagree with a word about the objectives in what the Paymaster General said. Secondly, there is the issue of how we move from the one scheme to the other. Would it not have been much better if the Government had signalled now that they want to change the method, if they do—I do not think that they need to do so—and give the industry a year to adjust to a new method, rather than writing a P45 directly from the office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the workers in the HCI industry?