Part of Surface Water and Highway Drainage Charges (Exemption) Bill – in the House of Commons at 11:30 pm on 12 May 2009.
Does my hon. Friend agree that today's debates will also affect those businesses? We have debated corporation tax for large and small businesses, and the VAT decrease and increase. The alcohol duty increase is just the last in the chain. By design or accident, there is a direct causal link with everything that we have debated today, and it is all coming together to affect this industry.