Orders of the Day — Selective Employment Payments Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 21 July 1966.

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Photo of Mr Russell Johnston Mr Russell Johnston , Inverness 12:00, 21 July 1966

I will not give way just now. I will give way in a moment, when I have finished the point that I am making. I quite accept the argument which has been put, to the effect that S.E.T. will do considerable harm to Scotland and the Scottish economy. I do not accept that it is a sensible tax and I accept that it is administrative nonsense in many ways. I do not think that the most effective way to deal with this is to pile nonsense upon nonsense, which is what the Scottish Unionist Members have been doing tonight. There is no doubt of this. I will now let the right hon. Gentleman intervene.