Clause 63
Finance (No.2) Bill
11:15 am
Dawn Primarolo (Paymaster General, HM Treasury; Bristol South, Labour)
The principle was to give us the flexibility to ensure that employment-related benefits that would otherwise be exempt from tax will remain so. A series of benefits are recognised as being employment related, which I am sure that no hon. Member would dispute. When we examined the issue of eye tests and corrective glasses for VDU users, it became clear that it was more sensible to have a regulation-making power to enable their provision. That will give us the opportunity to respond far more quickly to issues on benefits generally agreed to be work related.