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Planning-gain Supplement (Preparations) Bill

It is difficult to answer that point because, as has been suggested in the debate, the relationship between the section 75 procedure and the sums that will be raised from the planning gain supplement has not been clarified at this stage. An indication has been given of how a relationship may apply between the section 106 procedure in England and the tax raised by developments in England. I cannot answer the question, because I do not know what the consequence of the measure would be for the section 75 procedure that currently operates. For all those reasons, we need to have clarification of how the measure would apply in Scotland. We cannot simply leave it entirely up to the Scottish Executive to decide and the Scottish Parliament in due course to discuss. We are today taking the first steps in authorising a new tax that would apply in Scotland, as it would in England, but in Scotland we do not know what effect it would have on the ground in terms of particular allocation of resources. We have to have some reassurance on those points, and some more information. I hope that if the Minister cannot provide the detailed answers today, he will at least assure me that the Government intend to make those points clear during the passage of any substantive legislation to take the proposals forward.