Finance (No. 4) Bill Debate

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Department: HM Treasury
Wednesday 18th April 2012

(12 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Anne Main Portrait Mrs Anne Main (St Albans) (Con)
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In successful pasty shops such as Pengenna’s in Bude, the pasties come out of the oven and people eat them hot straight away. They are not being kept hot; they are being delivered hot and fresh from the oven. Does the hon. Lady share my concern that that represents an anomaly?

Cathy Jamieson Portrait Cathy Jamieson
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The hon. Lady makes a good point, and it will be interesting to see how she votes at the end of the debate.

If I were to go back to Brownings, my local baker, and purchase two vegan Killie pies, one to eat there and then and one to take home for another day, would one or both be VATable, to use the term the Chancellor used before the Select Committee?