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Finance Bill

My right hon. Friend is making a very powerful point, and I understand his asking Treasury Ministers to explain their rationale to us. We have already seen huge parts of the Budget unravel, and dare I say to my right hon. Friend that Ministers will not be quite so keen to hear what he is saying? However, surely they must take notice of what the Treasury Committee said in its immediate report after the Budget. It used the words "considerable uncertainties" about the yield from the tax rise. The Budget is already unravelling from the Committee's point of view, and surely the Government must address in this debate what it says.