I am most grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. We have had an extremely interesting debate on various aspects of the fiscal framework, but that is not actually what the amendment is crucially about: it is whether or not each House of Parliament should have an opportunity to approve it. That is what we are voting on. Despite all the technical discussion and so on which has been admirably set out and considered, the crucial issue is that the other place must have an opportunity to debate this. It would be absurd if the whole thing goes through without the House of Commons having debated it at all.
Scotland Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Higgins
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 29 February 2016.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Scotland Bill.
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