Clause 46 - Power to make consequential amendments
Finance Bill
5:30 pm
Mr Mark Prisk (Shadow Minister, Economic Affairs; Hertford and Stortford, Conservative)
I simply want to make one brief comment. The Paymaster General has kindly written to the Committee about clause 46 because it contains a regulation-making power. She has sought to supply us with a 23-page statutory instrument of delegated powers in order to help us have an informed debate. I welcome that and I am grateful to her. Unfortunately, it arrived at 9.30 this morning. I expect Committee members will have been disappointed not to have had the opportunity to deal with it, and I hope that the Paymaster General will recognise that that is a problem. I have one simple question for her: will she confirm that the statutory instrument will be debated on an affirmative basis, which will allow us to consider the elements within it?