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Finance Bill

I have been asked whether the proposals will be concrete, whether they will be cast-iron and, by my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Leicestershire, whether they will be copper-bottomed. I cannot find a form of words that will provide a stronger way of saying this. I shall mention some of the things that we have considered, but we intend to make proposals that will do precisely what my right hon. Friend the Member for Birkenhead is looking for. [Hon. Members: ““When?””] In the pre-Budget report. I cannot give my right hon. Friend more detail than that at the moment, because that would pre-empt the work that we are continuing to do, but I can assure him that that is our aim.