Sadly, the Minister has never bought me a free lunch, but that is no disparagement of his character.
Does the Minister pay a tip if it is automatically applied to the bill? The other points are a little frivolous, but this is a serious point: if the automatic charge is a service charge, does the Minister pay a tip in addition? That is important because there is a lot of confusion about whether a service charge is a tip. I do not think it is, and I still do not know whether it is covered by this Bill. Has the Minister ever crossed out a service charge on a bill and not paid it? Does the Minister ever dare not to pay a tip? He might choose to give the Government’s
response on all those matters rather than a personal one, but I wanted to get those questions on the record. In the interests of time, I will end my comments there.
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