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Subsidy Control Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Fox (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 22 March 2022. It occurred during Debate on bills on Subsidy Control Bill.

I apologise to the Minister and thank him for giving way. I am struggling a little with why the Government want to hoard the right to create streamlined subsidies to central government. I can assume only that it is because it gives the Government the ability to parachute schemes into Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland—which might not be seen by those devolved Administrations as something they would have—and,

because they are streamlined schemes, they cannot be challenged. Is that the reason the Government are not prepared to let devolved authorities have streamlined subsidy schemes for themselves?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
820 c917 
Session
2021-22
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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