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Debate on bill on Wednesday, 6 July 2005, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Primarolo. The answering member was Lord Hammond of Runnymede.

Finance Bill

Finance Bill. Report stage. New Clause 1 debated with New Clause 8 and negatived on division (181 to 276). New Clause 4 debated and negatived on division (194 to 289). New Clause 15 debated and negatived on division (153 to 340). New Clause 7 debated and negatived on division (12 to 351). New Clause 9 debated and withdrawn. Amendments to Clause 18 and Schedule 9 debated and withdrawn. Third Reading debate agreed to on question and Bill passed.

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Proceeding contributions
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c318 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am sorry to have to raise this on a point of order, but the righ...
Baroness Primarolo | 436 c318 (Link to this contribution) The aim in either case seems to be—
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Baroness Primarolo | 436 c317-8 (Link to this contribution) No, I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman at this point. New clauses 1 and 8 would both amend ...
Baroness Primarolo | 436 c317 (Link to this contribution) No, because I wish to reply to the points made by the hon. Member for Richmond Park (Susan Kramer). ...
Baroness Primarolo | 436 c317 (Link to this contribution) I hope that when I explain how the process works now, he will realise that that question is based on...
Brooks Newmark | 436 c317 (Link to this contribution) The thrust of the argument made by my hon. Friend the Member for Ludlow (Mr. Dunne) was the form-fil...
Baroness Primarolo | 436 c316-7 (Link to this contribution) To be fair to the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr. Hammond), he did not say that he want...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c310 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c310 (Link to this contribution) New clauses 1 and 8 take a slightly different approach to a problem while delivering, in essence, th...
Speaker | 436 c310 (Link to this contribution) With this, it will be convenient to take new clause 8—Inheritance Tax (No. 2)—"‘The Inheritance Tax ...
Baroness Primarolo | 436 c311 (Link to this contribution) I should like to take the opportunity, on behalf of the House and the country, to thank all those in...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c311 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I associate the Opposition with the right hon. Lady...
Baroness Kramer | 436 c313-4 (Link to this contribution) Today, the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives are speaking out together on inheritance tax. Tha...
Philip Dunne | 436 c314 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the House will excuse the pun, but I have grave concerns about proposals to increase the...
Speaker | 436 c311 (Link to this contribution) Order. I hate to put a dampener on any celebrations and I am personally delighted, but I cannot take...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c311-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The challenge that the House now faces is how to make the Inheritance Tax (D...
Philip Dunne | 436 c315-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. The HMRC work force is being reduced, so we should look carefully...
Stephen Hammond | 436 c315 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentions bureaucracy, but is not the problem even worse than he sets out? In Committe...
Philip Dunne | 436 c314-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that correction, and my hon. Friend is right to say that it was possible for solic...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c314 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend will forgive me for correcting him, but there was no requirement under th...
Stephen Hesford | 436 c316 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the House for not being in my place for the contribution by the hon. Member for Runny...
Baroness Primarolo | 436 c316 (Link to this contribution) It is important to put on the record a few points before responding to the debate. Unfortunately, so...
Ed Balls | 436 c326 (Link to this contribution) Was the hon. Gentleman on the trip?
Mark Field | 436 c326-7 (Link to this contribution) I hasten to add that I was not on the trip, although I am sure that one could be arranged at some ti...
Stephen Hesford | 436 c327 (Link to this contribution) : Subsection (2) of new clause 4 outlines the purpose of the putative tax law commission, but I can...
Mark Field | 436 c327 (Link to this contribution) I was rather hoping that the hon. Gentleman might have been the chairman of the all-party group on E...
Mark Field | 436 c325 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. As Paul McCartney and John Lennon might have ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c320-1 (Link to this contribution) I can assure the right hon. Lady that I feel unable to do any such thing, having heard no such thing...
Mark Field | 436 c325-6 (Link to this contribution) The song was No. 1 in the US in 1970, but that is another matter. This complex and highly technical...
Baroness Primarolo | 436 c318-20 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. What the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge thinks his new clause may d...
Speaker | 436 c318 (Link to this contribution) That is not a point of order. The hon. Gentleman knows that he will have an opportunity to reply to ...
Ed Balls | 436 c332 (Link to this contribution) I was trying to work out whether I could say that or not—the learning experience is hard. Does the h...
Ed Balls | 436 c331 (Link to this contribution) I noted the hon. Gentleman’s seeming agreement about the commission with the members of the Oppositi...
Mark Tami | 436 c330 (Link to this contribution) It passes the simplicity test.
Mark Field | 436 c327-30 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an entirely legitimate point. I shall address specific aspects of the tax l...
Ed Balls | 436 c327 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to ask whether the new clause is an excuse for further trips to Estonia to build broader ...
Chris Huhne | 436 c331 (Link to this contribution) I support the proposal for a tax law commission. If we had some weighing scales and put the current ...
Mark Field | 436 c331 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has misunderstood what we are trying to achieve. We think that establishing such ...
Ed Balls | 436 c330-1 (Link to this contribution) : I am trying to understand the nature of the hon. Gentleman’s proposal. In the case of Bank of Engl...
Mark Field | 436 c330 (Link to this contribution) Yes, the title passes the simplicity and certainty test. Of that there can be no doubt. The working...
Stephen Williams | 436 c334-5 (Link to this contribution) I had not intended to speak, but I shall contribute briefly to the debate. Among the Members present...
Pat McFadden | 436 c335 (Link to this contribution) In the absence of my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris), perhaps as h...
Helen Goodman | 436 c332 (Link to this contribution) Has any consideration been given to the appointments system for the future tax law commission?
Theresa Villiers | 436 c332 (Link to this contribution) I appeal to the House to support new clause 4 for common-sense reasons. We have an excellent Law Com...
Chris Huhne | 436 c332 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady will see that the new clause would give the Treasury the opportunity to present detail...
Theresa Villiers | 436 c333 (Link to this contribution) It is always difficult to draw a clear line between technical changes and policy, but the commission...
Stephen Hesford | 436 c333 (Link to this contribution) : I am following closely what the hon. Lady is saying, but as the hon. Member for Cities of London a...
Theresa Villiers | 436 c334 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not accept that at all. I repeat my response to the other intervention on the matter: the H...
Ed Balls | 436 c333-4 (Link to this contribution) I agree wholeheartedly with the hon. Lady’s desire for greater scrutiny, understanding and public de...
Stewart Hosie | 436 c375 (Link to this contribution) The argument was that there should be an automatic trigger and that any freeze should not be on the ...
Alan Reid | 436 c375 (Link to this contribution) The problem is that the hon. Gentleman has tried to word the new clause so that it covers all circum...
Speaker | 436 c374 (Link to this contribution) Order. That is really rather a lengthy intervention and I suggest that we return to the new clause u...
Alan Reid | 436 c375 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Eastleigh (Chris Huhne) for his useful intervention. The new ...
Alex Salmond | 436 c375 (Link to this contribution) If the Chancellor, in his infinite wisdom, had decided to raise duty, where would the hon. Gentleman...
Adam Price | 436 c373-4 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure, and sometimes a challenge, to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Banff an...
Chris Huhne | 436 c374 (Link to this contribution) May I intervene on a point which, unfortunately, I had to learn the hard way? The hon. Member for Ba...
Alex Salmond | 436 c374 (Link to this contribution) I must have missed that amendment during our proceedings on the Finance Bill. If that is the Liberal...
Alan Reid | 436 c374 (Link to this contribution) High oil prices are clearly causing a serious problem in rural areas, especially in the islands wher...
Charles Walker | 436 c371 (Link to this contribution) I simply wanted to point out that I have some sympathy with the hon. Gentleman’s concern for the hau...
Alex Salmond | 436 c371 (Link to this contribution) I am prepared to exempt the hon. Gentleman entirely from my strictures. In fact, I was about to move...
Chris Huhne | 436 c371 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman therefore describe how the proposed arrangements in the new clause would be ...
Alex Salmond | 436 c371-2 (Link to this contribution) The new clause is about windfall gains and VAT. If the price is dropping, there are no windfall gain...
Alex Salmond | 436 c372-3 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my high praise does not cast a pall over the Financial Secretary’s political prospects. ...
Mike Weir | 436 c370 (Link to this contribution) What the hon. Gentleman says about global warming is fine, but can he tell us the time scale? I repr...
Chris Huhne | 436 c369-70 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention, but I did not say opportunistic—I said populist, a...
Alex Salmond | 436 c370-1 (Link to this contribution) : I am amazed by some of the contributions that we have just heard. I should say to the other Opposi...
Chris Huhne | 436 c370 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, I am completely sympathetic to the problems of road hauliers and other motorists in ...
Charles Walker | 436 c369 (Link to this contribution) : I hold no brief for the Scottish National party, but it was a bit unfair to call its new clause op...
Mark Francois | 436 c369 (Link to this contribution) I would like to put on the record the fact that, as the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Salmon...
Chris Huhne | 436 c369 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for making that point, as I am a new Member and certainly would ...
Alex Salmond | 436 c368 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is not presuming to know more about the drafting of new clauses th...
Chris Huhne | 436 c368-9 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that I would defer to the Clerks in that matter—but I come back to the point that nowhere ...
Alex Salmond | 436 c368 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but it is not a statutory obligation, and if we are proposing a statutory new clause to do some...
Chris Huhne | 436 c368 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that clarification, but it would be very odd if the new clause required the Chance...
Chris Huhne | 436 c368 (Link to this contribution) : We approach the new clause with much sympathy with its objectives, but like the hon. Member for Ra...
Mark Francois | 436 c368 (Link to this contribution) You have already chided the House, Madam Deputy Speaker, for straying slightly wide of the mark. Min...
Helen Goodman | 436 c367-8 (Link to this contribution) : Did the hon. Gentleman hear the thoughtful speech by his right hon. Friend the Member for West Dor...
Mark Francois | 436 c367 (Link to this contribution) No. We can see what the minor parties have been trying to achieve, but the mechanism, especially in...
Brooks Newmark | 436 c367 (Link to this contribution) : While I very much agree with the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Stewart Hosie) that we all have tre...
Speaker | 436 c367 (Link to this contribution) Order. A bigger concern that might be, but I am afraid that it is wide of the new clause that we are...
Mark Francois | 436 c367 (Link to this contribution) I do not mean to challenge you for one moment, Madam Deputy Speaker, but it is always nice to see a ...
Mark Francois | 436 c366-7 (Link to this contribution) In a moment. Moreover, the adoption of new clause 7 as drafted—again, assuming that there is a form...
Alex Salmond | 436 c367 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman made what he described as an important point about which crude would be the bench...
Mark Francois | 436 c367 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman’s party was among those that put forward the amendment and it is not my duty to e...
Alex Salmond | 436 c367 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Alex Salmond | 436 c366 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Mark Francois | 436 c366 (Link to this contribution) I shall make our position fairly clear towards the end of my speech. I understand the hon. Gentleman...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 436 c366 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has drawn attention to difficulties in the specific terms of the new clause, but ...
Charles Walker | 436 c363 (Link to this contribution) Is not the hon. Gentleman particularly concerned about the impact that fuel increases have on rural ...
Stewart Hosie | 436 c363 (Link to this contribution) We are suggesting that when prices rise, that pays for a reduction in fuel duty, but when world oil ...
Helen Goodman | 436 c363 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting a mechanism rather like the commodity agreements in international m...
Stewart Hosie | 436 c363 (Link to this contribution) The volatility is precisely the point. To avoid Governments having to scurry about freezing duty lev...
Mark Francois | 436 c366 (Link to this contribution) One or two road hauliers are active in my county of Essex and there are a number of farmers in my co...
Nadine Dorries | 436 c366 (Link to this contribution) In my rural constituency, I represent many market gardeners, farmers and road hauliers who must batt...
Mark Francois | 436 c364-6 (Link to this contribution) I wish to respond to new clause 7 on behalf of the official Opposition. The hon. Member for Dundee, ...
Stewart Hosie | 436 c363-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman must have seen my summing-up. It is no surprise that Members who back the new cla...
Helen Goodman | 436 c363 (Link to this contribution) The oil price is particularly volatile, so how, at the time it goes up, would we make a judgment as ...
Stewart Hosie | 436 c362-3 (Link to this contribution) We consider it important that a ranged forecast be made in order to allow the trigger mechanism for ...
Helen Goodman | 436 c362 (Link to this contribution) I am slightly puzzled by subsection (1B), which states:"““The Chancellor of the Exchequer shall publ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c354-5 (Link to this contribution) I am disappointed that the Paymaster General has chosen to paint as bad people those who use trusts ...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 436 c356 (Link to this contribution) The Paymaster General may have misunderstood the import of what she is doing in such elections. I un...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c355-6 (Link to this contribution) Well, those arguments have been made both to the Paymaster General and to senior Revenue officials. ...
Stewart Hosie | 436 c360-1 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. We are seeking to amend the Hydrocarbon Oil D...
Charles Walker | 436 c361 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that if we are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as we all want to ...
Baroness Primarolo | 436 c352-4 (Link to this contribution) In debates such as this, it is important to bear in mind the specifics of the matter in question. Th...
Lord Deben | 436 c351-2 (Link to this contribution) That is not only true but self-evident. I do not wish to go down that line, but I do notice that whe...
Charles Walker | 436 c350 (Link to this contribution) : My right hon. Friend has got to the nub of the problem. We, as Conservatives, believe that the fam...
Lord Deben | 436 c350 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, but I do not want to follow too far down that particular ro...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 436 c350 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is making a cogent contribution. Does he agree that many people nowadays have t...
Lord Deben | 436 c349-50 (Link to this contribution) : First, I would like to declare a disinterest in the sense that I have never created such a trust o...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c348-9 (Link to this contribution) I would prefer to say that tax planning is perfectly legal. As our tax code has developed, the more ...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 436 c348 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware of the old tax maxim that tax evasion is totally illegal, while tax avoidanc...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c348 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is certainly right on the first count: as I said earlier, a modest three-bedroomed fo...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 436 c348 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is putting across a highly technical case very cogently. Does he agree that, because ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c344 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes two very good points. Clearly, it was not the intention of inheritance tax when...
Charles Walker | 436 c344 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the tax at the current threshold penalises most people living in the ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c345-8 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right. Those of my hon. Friends who have had the opportunity of serving on t...
Lord Deben | 436 c344-5 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend therefore agree that, when the Government tried to block what it was perfectly r...
John Healey | 436 c336-8 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman is following the debate as well as he has followed the written...
Chris Huhne | 436 c335-6 (Link to this contribution) The Minister may be aware that as new clause 4 makes no mention of the other House having any overvi...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c343-4 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. New clause 5 addresses an anomaly—indeed, I m...
Mark Field | 436 c338 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that the consideration of clause 4 always brings out a certain sensitivity in Labour Membe...
John Healey | 436 c335 (Link to this contribution) We have had a good debate on the new clause. I particularly welcome the contributions by my hon. Fri...
Stephen Williams | 436 c335 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that this House is very jealous of its privileges and would always be the master, as the h...
Mike Weir | 436 c377-8 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that there are some in Argyll, but the hon. Member for Argyll and Bute will keep quiet abo...
John Healey | 436 c378 (Link to this contribution) We have had an interesting debate. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Rayleigh (Mr. Francois) tells...
Baroness Kramer | 436 c378 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that the road haulage industry was banking on the scheme being in place by ...
John Healey | 436 c378 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has only just joined our debate on new clause 7. Leaders such as Roger King and Richar...
Mike Weir | 436 c377 (Link to this contribution) The whole point is to smooth the price increases. The hon. Gentleman obviously does not understand t...
John Healey | 436 c379 (Link to this contribution) We announced yesterday that we remain convinced that a distance-based charge is the right way ahead,...
Adam Price | 436 c378-9 (Link to this contribution) The Financial Secretary says that those people have taken a constructive approach, but Richard Turne...
Charles Walker | 436 c379 (Link to this contribution) I would hate the Minister and my constituents to think that I advocate higher taxes. I suggested tha...
Charles Walker | 436 c376 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the Liberal Democrats’ desire to introduce road pricing as a mean...
Mike Weir | 436 c376 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is being optimistic, since the Liberals opposed such a policy in Edinburgh, and I...
Chris Huhne | 436 c376 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has missed the point that his proposal involves a substantial cut in Government r...
Mike Weir | 436 c376 (Link to this contribution) As usual, the hon. Gentleman disguises Liberal inactivity with some weird justification for not doin...
Alan Reid | 436 c375 (Link to this contribution) I support the Chancellor’s decision not to increase fuel duty. Under proposed new subsection (1C), ...
Mike Weir | 436 c375-6 (Link to this contribution) I am astonished at the contributions from Tory and Liberal Members. I am sure that the electors of A...
Alan Reid | 436 c376 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Mike Weir | 436 c376 (Link to this contribution) I take your strictures, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Liberals are playing to the gallery in Edinburgh, ...
Alex Salmond | 436 c381 (Link to this contribution) As I have told the Financial Secretary before, if the Treasury truly believed that argument, it woul...
John Healey | 436 c381 (Link to this contribution) There has been slight confusion in the debate. Earlier, Members were discussing forecasts of the oil...
Alex Salmond | 436 c380 (Link to this contribution) Has the Treasury examined the idea of having a regulator or governor as part of the process of smoot...
John Healey | 436 c380-1 (Link to this contribution) We have, not least because the Scottish National party tried to table similar amendments to other Fi...
John Healey | 436 c379-80 (Link to this contribution) No doubt the hon. Gentleman’s hon. Friends and his constituents will read the Official Report tomorr...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 436 c388 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend not also press the Government on the following fact? If there were a greater mar...
Stewart Hosie | 436 c381-2 (Link to this contribution) It would be churlish not to recognise that. The Financial Secretary recognised the difficulties fac...
Lord Risby | 436 c385-8 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. New clause 9 would compel the Government to i...
Stewart Hosie | 436 c381 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Financial Secretary for his reasoned and reasonable response. His point about reclaiming...
John Healey | 436 c381 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the Treasury’s recent record of forecasting on economic condit...
Baroness Kramer | 436 c389 (Link to this contribution) Despite the comments of the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris), REITs are a larg...
Ivan Lewis | 436 c389-90 (Link to this contribution) May I first welcome the new attachment of the Opposition parties to the concept of REITs? It was, in...
Ed Balls | 436 c390 (Link to this contribution) I fully accept the Minister’s point that REITs were originally a Treasury proposal rather than one s...
Ivan Lewis | 436 c390 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my hon. Friend that consistency is not a trademark of the Opposition, as we ha...
Lord Risby | 436 c388-9 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree. Indeed, in submissions made to the Treasury by the British Property Federation, th...
Rob Marris | 436 c389 (Link to this contribution) I have three questions to ask the hon. Gentleman. As background, he cited the figures and the resear...
Lord Risby | 436 c390-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a real joy to have the presence of the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris)....
Chris Huhne | 436 c391-2 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment No. 2, in page 17, line 39, at end insert
Ivan Lewis | 436 c392-3 (Link to this contribution) I cannot accept the amendment, but I want to reassure the hon. Gentleman about some of his reasonabl...
Mark Field | 436 c393 (Link to this contribution) : I beg to move amendment No. 5, in page 131, line 14, at end insert
Mark Field | 436 c397;436 c397-8 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that we have had a concise debate and a precise response from the Minister on this issue. ...
Ivan Lewis | 436 c395-7 (Link to this contribution) First, I shall respond to some of the specific points made by hon. Members. The hon. Member for Citi...
Baroness Primarolo | 436 c398-9;436 c398-400 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I would like to take this opportunity to t...
Speaker | 436 c393 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss amendment No. 6, in page 131, line 43, at end insert—
Chris Huhne | 436 c395 (Link to this contribution) I, too, shall attempt to be brief, as time is marching on and we discussed the issue in the Standing...
Chris Huhne | 436 c332 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that our proposals for changing the role of the House of Lords go rathe...
Chris Huhne | 436 c402-3 (Link to this contribution) : I share many of the sentiments expressed by the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr. Hammo...
Baroness Primarolo | 436 c311 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Please forgive me for interrupting the hon. Gentleman, but I am su...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c356 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend is right to suggest that a court order might be required to break a tr...
Stewart Hosie | 436 c361-2 (Link to this contribution) I thought I had covered that earlier. If we use duty or tax—a price mechanism—as a disincentive for ...
Alan Reid | 436 c377 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that hauliers want certainty but, under proposed new subsection (1C), anythi...
Mike Weir | 436 c376-7 (Link to this contribution) No, I have given way enough. I made the point in an earlier intervention that we are dealing with r...
Speaker | 436 c376 (Link to this contribution) Order. Congestion charges are far wide of the new clause, to which the hon. Gentleman should address...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 436 c400-2 (Link to this contribution) We reach Third Reading with some of our concerns unresolved, although it would be untrue to say that...
Mark Field | 436 c393-5 (Link to this contribution) As the Economic Secretary will appreciate, the amendment covers some of the ground that was cantered...
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