Given the serious legal proceedings that the Government have had to accept, were they to lose the case presumably it would cost us even more money as taxpayers, because they would have to refund all the money and go to enormous administrative expense to sort out the mess. If the Government gave in on the amendments, they might do all of us a favour by saving us money in the event of defeat in the courts.
Finance Bill
Proceeding contribution from
John Redwood
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 1 May 2007.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Finance Bill.
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