Clause 9
Finance Bill
1:30 pm
Paul Goodman (Shadow Minister (Childcare), Treasury; Wycombe, Conservative)
We have received no hostile representations on the clause, so do not intend to oppose it. I feel slightly apprehensive because I recollect that during the proceedings on a statutory instrument in the past year in which the Financial Secretary and I participated—unfortunately, my researchers have been unable to locate the debate—he disclosed the fact that the statutory instrument in question had been necessary because an error had crept into the legislation which the Government, the official Opposition, the Liberal Democrats and everyone else had entirely failed to spot. Despite that caveat, as we have received no hostile representations on the clause, we do not intend to oppose it.