Part of Finance Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 6:45 pm on 5 June 2007.
Rob Marris
Labour, Wolverhampton South West
6:45,
5 June 2007
I welcome the amendments, which do not change the meaning of the Bill. As the hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne said, the Financial Secretary’s letter said that there are 3,000 instances elsewhere in legislation where that drafting is used. In respect of remarks that I made earlier, I note that the meaning and effect of various other parts of the Bill would not be affected if the word “but” was removed. If I am foolish enough to serve on another Finance Bill Committee, I do not want to get a letter saying that “but” starts 3,000 subsections elsewhere because we did not clean that up in this Bill.