Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29 March 2001.
Ann Cryer
Labour, Keighley
12:00,
29 March 2001
Will my hon. Friend comment on the fact that a charity in Ilkley in my Constituency may well have to pay a levy of £10,000 over and above the cost of building a bandstand because Customs and Excise does not regard a bandstand as a building? If a bandstand is not a building, what is it?
In a general election, each Constituency chooses an MP to represent them. MPs have a responsibility to represnt the views of the Constituency in the House of Commons. There are 650 Constituencies, and thus 650 MPs. A citizen of a Constituency is known as a Constituent
