Clause 12
Finance Bill
3:15 pm
Angela Eagle (Parliamentary Secretary, HM Treasury; Wallasey, Labour)
When I have finished answering the hon. Gentleman’s initial question, I shall of course let him intervene again.
There are no rigorous official statistics about such things simply because the phenomenon is illegal and underground. All we can do is have surveys carried out. We all probably have our own view, because we have had particular experience of what is going on in our constituencies or what is available in the communities in which we live.