I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way and I pay tribute to his chairmanship of the Scottish Affairs Committee. Does he also recall the evidence we got from the editor and the business editor of The Scotsman? The issue was not the cannibalisation of corporation tax but the fact that the business community did not trust the SNP not to drive business out of Scotland with a high tax policy.
Scotland Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Mike Freer
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 21 June 2011.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Scotland Bill.
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