Schedule 3
Finance Bill
4:00 pm
Jane Kennedy (Financial Secretary, HM Treasury; Liverpool, Wavertree, Labour)
I do not have that figure immediately in front of me. If we have a figure for it, I will supply it to the Committee. It is not material to the consideration of the amendments themselves. We do not believe that the amendments are necessary in principle. It is not necessary or desirable to connect the shareholdings described in some of the amendments—that is the share incentive plans and the save-as-you-earn schemes—to the entrepreneurs relief.
Having heard my remarks in response to the amendments, I hope that the hon. Member for Runnymede and Weybridge will not press them to a vote, but if he does choose to do so, I hope that my hon. Friends will resist.