Clause 57
Finance (No.2) Bill
10:30 am
David Gauke (South West Hertfordshire, Conservative)
I shall make two brief points. I am grateful to the Paymaster General for her comments on the Law Society. In the Committee of the whole House on another topic she was a little dismissive of law firms and professional advisers and questioned whether such advisers would know more than Treasury officials. In this case, it has emerged that they do.
I should declare an interest: the Law Society’s recommendations and comments were produced by the law firm Travis Smith. The lawyer who noticed the error in the drafting of the Bill was one Mrs. Rachel Gauke, who is my wife. I wish to place on the record the fact that during the Committee stage, one member of the Gauke family has managed to persuade the Government to change the Bill.