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Finance Bill

We have had a debate that has been a bit like shadow-boxing, on amendments 10 and 12, which were tabled by the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National party respectively. At least they had the courage to get their amendments on the Order Paper. We then had an extremely long peroration from the hon. Member for Hammersmith and Fulham (Mr. Hands), who dealt with all the amendments at great length. He thereby proved that amendment 10, which is about doing research, is erroneous, because as my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris) pointed out, as a lot of the research already exists. The hon. Gentleman then said, after all that, that he would be abstaining.