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House of Lords (Members’ Taxation Status) Bill [HL]

My Lords, the noble Lord said that this was a marginal issue compared with the general principles. However, today’s debate has shown that it is unwise to deal with taxation matters simply in the way that the noble Lord suggests without understanding the wider implications for taxation policy, which has clearly been demonstrated. On the question of kicking the issue into the long grass, does the noble Lord not recognise that the danger of these incremental approaches to Lords reform is that they will inhibit the move towards fundamental reform? I will take the same view about the Bill proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Steel, for the same reason.