Clause 15
Finance Bill
3:45 pm
Jeremy Browne (Taunton, Liberal Democrat)
I differentiate future duty increases and those that have already been implemented. What cumulative losses would the Exchequer have incurred, and what consequent increases in public debt would have resulted, if the Conservative-Scottish National party vote on the Floor of the House not to proceed with the April 2009 duty increase had been successful? The policy would obviously have had an impact on the public finances as a whole.