Finance Bill

Debate between Catherine McKinnell and Dan Byles

Tuesday 3rd July 2012 Commons Chamber

[Catherine McKinnell]

We are suggesting—we hope that the Government will jump on our way of thinking, as they did with the delay in the rise in fuel duty—an immediate reduction to 17.5% until we get the economy back into growth.

[Dan Byles (North Warwickshire) (Con)]

Temporary, but open-ended.

[Catherine McKinnell]

It all depends on how long the Government take to get the economy back into growth. The reaction of Government Members seems strange, when they are driving the economy into recession rather than into growth.