The issue of making decisions during purdah has already been raised. It is right and proper that those decisions were made because, as the hon. Gentleman will know, under the appropriate arrangements, the Government should never act such as to incur costs through delay. Furthermore, those decisions were signed off in entirely the right manner by the Cabinet Office.
HMRC Closures
Proceeding contribution from
Mel Stride
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 2 November 2017.
It occurred during Backbench debate on HMRC Closures.
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