National Insurance Contributions Bill

Part of the debate – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:00 pm on 2 December 2010.

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Priyen Patel: Hopefully, that will lead to the Treasury and the Government as a whole becoming slightly more creative and slightly more innovative in policy making. One thing that the Prime Minister before the election said when he visited Northern Ireland was that we could look at making it an enterprise zone. That would obviously imply different criteria for regulation, planning, the tax regime and perhaps capital investment, which would be slightly different from other regions of the UK. This is a creative policy, and being a bit creative, without being too creative, let us say, is welcomed, but because it is very new and very different, it needs some analysis after it has had some run.