My hon. Friend is right. Harking back to 2009 and the Fiscal Responsibility Bill, the then Chancellor made great play of legislation to bring down the debt and deficit, and what was the sanction should he fail? “We would just change the targets,” he said. I suspect the current situation is rather similar, and I may come to what the current Chancellor said about that particular legislation shortly.
National Insurance Contributions (Rate Ceilings) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Stewart Hosie
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 15 September 2015.
It occurred during Debate on bills on National Insurance Contributions (Rate Ceilings) Bill.
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