I hesitate to interrupt my noble friend, but I asked my noble friend Lady Penn how much the Government were getting in additional receipts as a result of the increase in the cost of oil, petrol and so on. Some £1.4 billion is a small fraction of that; it ought to release resources which were otherwise not there and could be used, for example, to deal with universal credit.
Queen’s Speech
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 16 May 2022.
It occurred during Queen's speech debate on Queen’s Speech.
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