(Except clauses 11, 18, 40, 43, 44 and 69 and schedule 8)
Finance Bill
10:30 am
Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield, Conservative)
First, let me welcome hon. Members on both sides of the Committee to the first sitting of the Finance Bill 2005. I wish to express a particularly warm welcome to new Members. This will be their first Standing Committee and I hope that it will be an enjoyable and pleasant experience. Looking around the Room, I am completely convinced that our sittings will be orderly and constructive and that interventions from the Chair will be extremely rare.
I have an understanding of people's comfort and, although I am an Englishman of the traditional sort, if members of the Committee wish to take off their jackets and hang them on the back of their chair, they may do so, because we are in for a very warm day. I call the Paymaster General to move the sittings motion.