Rate Support and Other Grants

Part of Orders of the Day — Wales Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 5 April 1978.

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Photo of Mr Ian Grist Mr Ian Grist , Cardiff North 12:00, 5 April 1978

Is not the hon. Gentleman arguing for the Assembly to have taxation powers? Is this not the argument that will be coming out of the Assembly—that it would wish to increase its support to local authorities had it but the means to do so, that the people preventing it were in this House and that the only discipline to make it honour its words would be the power of taxing the people of Wales directly? Does the hon. Gentleman think that the Assembly should have the right to blackguard this House and blackmail the rest of the United Kingdom?