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Finance Bill

The hon. Gentleman knows the unwritten rules of the House and how they operate. The last say will be with those on the Labour Benches, through new clause 20 or when the pre-Budget statement comes back. Other people might wish to assist us in achieving that objective but all I say to my right hon. Friend the Financial Secretary is that during my 30 years in the House I have never experienced a group of Back Benchers instinctively reacting in the way that we did. If we do not get satisfaction tonight with new clause 20, we will return to the subject in November. We are not prepared for the year to pass by without the Government's bringing forward measures that, as my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Leicestershire (David Taylor) has laid out, fully compensate every low-paid worker who loses out from the abolition of the 10p rate.