Clause 7 - Class 1, 1A, 1B or 2 contributions: powers to call for documents etc: Great Britain
National Insurance Contributions and Statutory Payments Bill
11:15 am
Mr Mark Prisk (Hertford and Stortford, Conservative)
I shall not go through those powers. The Paymaster General is entirely right: the diminution of the powers in relation to national insurance is right. It seems inappropriate to have those powers when one thinks that the amounts involved are usually significantly smaller than those involved with tax. There are benefits to alignment, in creating a single, unified approach, and as such we have no wish to oppose the clause.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 7 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clause 8 ordered to stand part of the Bill.