(Except clauses 3, 5, 6, 15, 21, 49, 90 and 117 and new clauses amending section 74 of the Finance Act 2003)
Finance Bill
9:00 am

Jane Kennedy (Financial Secretary, HM Treasury; Liverpool, Wavertree, Labour)

On a point of order, Mr. Hood. It is a pleasure to be here this morning on the last day before the Whitsun recess. Speaking for myself, I need a haircut and a holiday, although not necessarily in that order. My compliments to you, Mr. Hood, for stealing the hands of time and correcting the clock. It will help us to a great extent.

I wish to update the Committee. I undertook to publish amendments relating to residents and non-domiciles for a future debate. I said that they would be laid as soon as they were available and that full explanatory notes would be provided for each one. To provide the maximum opportunity for scrutiny before the debate, I propose to table each amendment formally when it has been prepared rather than release all the amendments at the same time. They will then be published on Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs website to ensure that the widest possible audience can be informed of their contents before they are discussed in Committee. If the amendments are ready for release during the Whitsun recess, I shall place them on HMRC website in draft, having circulated them to the Committee, and then table them during the week commencing 2 June when the House returns from the recess. I anticipate that that will happen with the first such amendment, which is to paragraphs 37 and 38 of schedule 7.

Jimmy Hood (Lanark and Hamilton East, Labour)

That was not a point of order for the Chair. However, the Committee will be grateful to the Minister for the information.