Clause 25 - Penalty for evasion
Finance Bill
10:30 am
Mr Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield, Conservative)
Before we begin the debate and further to the point of order raised by the hon. Member for Eddisbury on clauses 34 and 35 and the amendments to them, the Chair is happy for amendments Nos. 123 and 124 to be discussed with clause 34 and amendments Nos. 131, 132 and 120 to be discussed with clause 35. I hope that that meets the wishes of the Committee.
I understand through the usual channels that the Committee is likely to sit until around 7.30 pm today. If yesterday's happenings in the House are a guide, we shall probably have several Divisions on the Floor of the House on the third day of the Criminal Justice Bill. I suggest to the Committee that it might be sensible to try to combine a tea break for Committee members—and particularly for Ministers, Opposition spokesmen and the Chair, a comfort break—with a Division if one occurs around 5 o'clock and that we have a short break of, perhaps, half an hour then. I shall make an announcement at the time, but thought it might be helpful for the Committee to have some indication of that now.