(Except clauses 3, 5, 6, 15, 21, 49, 90 and 117 and new clauses amending section 74 of the Finance Act 2003)
Finance Bill
Public Bill Committees, 13 May 2008, 10:30 am
Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield, Conservative)
I welcome all hon. Members to this further sitting of the Finance Bill Committee. It is another very pleasant day, and we had a wonderful weekend, so I hope that everyone feels duly rested and recharged for the political conflicts ahead.
We are making steady but not over-rapid progress on this important Bill, and we are still on schedule 3. I understand from the Clerk that we had hoped to complete consideration of the schedule on Thursday but, sadly, that did not happen and we have three groups of amendments to discuss this morning. I have selected amendment No. 26 to schedule 3 in the name of Her Majesty’s Opposition. I am not sure which member of the Opposition team will leap to his feet, but I shall take a gamble on it being Mr. Philip Hammond.