Clause 17 - Requirement of evidence or security
Finance Bill
4:00 pm
Mr Howard Flight (Arundel and South Downs, Conservative)
No one could be keener on recovering wasted expenditure than I, but surely the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West made the crucial point in terms of the law: there needs to be knowledge and warning if a democratic system is to accept the sort of powers being proposed here.