Schedule 3
Finance Bill
2:45 pm
Philip Hammond (Shadow Chief Secretary To the Treasury, Treasury; Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
Okay, and the record will record the phrase “ad nauseum” as well, Mr. Cook. I apologise if I erred, but I gained the impression that there was an element of reluctance. That is my error.
I was seeking to make the point that a large number of amendments have been tabled to the schedule and a large number of outside bodies have raised further issues with it—all members of the Committee will be aware of that because they will have received the briefings. A number of issues have not been covered by the amendments tabled so far, because the observations from professional outside bodies arrived too late for amendments to be tabled. It might be possible, depending on the progress of today’s debate, for further amendments to be tabled. If it is not, it would be helpful to the Committee if we were able to cover some of the areas raised by the Law Society, in particular, in a stand part debate at the end. My point is that I will resist the temptation to go wider than the amendments to try to sweep up some of the other issues in the hope that we will be able to come to them in a stand part debate.