Clause 5 — Small companies' rates and fractions for financial year 2008 etc

Part of Orders of the Day – in the House of Commons at 4:45 pm on 28 April 2008.

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Photo of John Redwood John Redwood Conservative, Wokingham 4:45, 28 April 2008

Will the Minister explain how it came to pass that the previous Chancellor created such an unfair system in her view that the Government now have to amend it in this direction of creating greater fairness? Is it not rather the case that the previous Chancellor gave a poisoned pill to his successor in the form of higher taxes across the piece?