Spending Review Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Spending Review

Charlie Elphicke Excerpts
Wednesday 26th June 2013

(11 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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George Osborne Portrait Mr Osborne
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There will be no museum charges; free entry will remain. What we are doing in the museums sector is introducing radical new freedoms, which have been welcomed across the sector. I think that is the right reform, which is to give more freedom to the front line.

Charlie Elphicke Portrait Charlie Elphicke (Dover) (Con)
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As so little has been done about problems of tax avoidance over the past decade, can the Chancellor confirm that HMRC will have the resources and the cultural enthusiasm it needs to tackle tax avoidance? Does he agree—

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. One question is enough.