Part of Finance Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 9:30 am on 10 May 2007.
May I suggest that the hon. Gentleman consults the alcohol industry’s representative groups? If he does, he will see how welcome they find the moves that we are taking and they will tell him how involved they are in these measures. That may be something that he wishes to pursue after this Committee hearing.
May I also welcome the hon. Member for Windsor and his contribution, which rounded off the debate? I must say that he made what seemed to me an extraordinary point, by suggesting that somehow we should not be using tax to raise revenues for the public purse. That is a quite extraordinary proposition, and frankly it was implicit in his whole line of argument.