Tax Credits (Income Thresholds and Determination of Rates) (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Lord Pearson of Rannoch Excerpts

Monday 26th October 2015 Lords Chamber

[Noble Lords]

Hear, hear!

[Lord Pearson of Rannoch (UKIP)]

My Lords, would the noble Baroness answer the question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Richard? Does she agree that the Motions in the names of the noble Baronesses, Lady Meacher and Lady Hollis of Heigham, are not fatal Motions?

[Baroness Stowell of Beeston]

I am not defining them in such a way because they have not been defined in such a way by this House. They are amendments that are quite unique. They mean that this House will start setting conditions and making demands on the Government, and acquiring for itself powers as far as how it considers a matter that has already been decided and approved by the other place—a statutory instrument to the value of £4.4 billion. That is what makes this situation so different: we are challenging the primacy of the other place on a matter of finance.

Amendment to the Motion

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[Lord Greaves (LD)]

My Lords—

[Lord Pearson of Rannoch]

My Lords—

[Lord Taylor of Holbeach]

The House was listening to the noble Lord, Lord Butler.