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Finance Bill

That clarification is helpful, but in my experience—and as a long-standing member of the European Scrutiny Committee, I do not know how many EU directives we receive every week—it is easy to look at those directives, and pick and choose a little bit from them, but we have to study them and go through them in totality to try to find ways around them to do what we want to do. That is what other European countries have been doing. I would appreciate the Exchequer Secretary's explanation as to whether the UK has been looking at schemes to reduce, for example, the cost of served drinks, which is what the French have done and is a possible way forward.