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Finance Bill

Although I do not necessarily share the anger about casinos expressed by my right hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer), not least because many are in my constituency, I am fairly positive about a lot of the online offerings. What is most perverse, however, is that online bingo is charged at 15 per cent., yet bingo in a club, which has so many desirable social outcomes, for all the reasons so adequately pointed out by the hon. Member for Stockton, South (Ms Taylor), is charged at 22 per cent. That is a quite ludicrous state of affairs.