Clause 15
Finance Bill
3:45 pm
Jeremy Browne (Taunton, Liberal Democrat)
I shall make an extremely brief point because these subjects have been discussed at length. I wanted to expand briefly on the two interventions that I have just made. There is a difference between April 2009 and September 2009. In May, April has already happened and September has yet to happen. I do not know what the price of fuel will be in September, but I certainly knew in May what the price of fuel was in April. The decision, or otherwise, not to go ahead with September 2009 duty increases is not costing the Exchequer anything today, whereas it would have done if the Conservative-SNP amendment had been passed, because every single person at the pump today would be contributing less in taxation.