Part of Finance Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 6:30 pm on 8 May 2007.
Julia Goldsworthy
Shadow Chief Secretary To the Treasury, Treasury
6:30,
8 May 2007
Will the Financial Secretary concede that there might be one exception—super-strength lagers? People with significant addiction problems buy such lagers because they are the strongest and cheapest drink, so the price contributes to their decision. Generally, they are drunk by people with problems. Does he not think that changing the price might go a significant way towards tackling that specific problem?
A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
