Finance Bill

My Lords, before I say what I am going to say about the Finance Bill, I have been waiting for an ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Wakeham, has taken me back to those long nights we used to spend o...

My Lords, this year I served on the Finance Bill Sub-Committee of the Select Committee on Economi...

It is 664.

I thank the noble Lord. That does not seem very far along the road of tax simplification. Busines...

My Lords, it has been a short debate—I am beginning to think that debates are in inverse size to ...

My Lords, this has been an excellent debate. It has centred on a financial Bill which scarcely gr...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions in this short but very helpful debate, ...

The Minister referred to the specific issue of inheritance tax, but what about stamp duty?

I was coming to that.

Fair enough. I thought he had dealt with me—that was all. Forgive me.

I would never be so pompous as to pretend that I should deal with the noble Lord, but I shall cer...