King’s recommendation signified.
Resolved,
That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session relating to finance, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of money provided by Parliament of—
(a) any expenditure incurred by the Commissioners for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs in respect of credits to companies in respect of expenditure on research and development, and
(b) any expenditure incurred by the Commissioners for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs in respect of credits to companies in respect of expenditure on the production of films, television programmes or video games.
Ordered,
That a Bill be brought in upon the foregoing Resolutions;
That the Chairman of Ways and Means, the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Laura Trott, Bim Afolami, Gareth Davies and Nigel Huddleston bring in the Bill.
Finance Bill
Presentation and First Reading
Nigel Huddleston accordingly presented a Bill to make provision in connection with finance.
Bill read the First time; to be read a Second time tomorrow, and to be printed (Bill 14) with explanatory notes (Bill 14-EN).