No, I did not. I was asked earlier how I would pay for the changes, and I indicated that I would start with corporations. In effect, corporations receive £70 billion in relief over a five-year to six-year period through banking levy reductions and so on. That is the starting point for us. As far as I am concerned, the Bill takes us no closer to knowing when the Conservatives will finally meet their target of closing the deficit. A series of failures has led them to borrow more than any other Government in history, and far more than every Labour Government combined. That is the fact of the matter.
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Peter Dowd
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 18 April 2017.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Finance (No. 2) Bill.
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