Budget Resolutions

Wes Streeting Excerpts

Wednesday 8th March 2017 Commons Chamber

[Wes Streeting (Ilford North) (Lab)]

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

[Mr Tyrie]

I give way to the hon. Gentleman, who is a member of the Treasury Committee.

[Wes Streeting]

I agree with the right hon. Gentleman that merely delaying by a year is insufficient. Does he agree that the Chancellor should enact the Treasury Committee’s other recommendations and that, unless he does, today’s Budget will be good news for accountants and bad news for small businesses?

[Mr Tyrie]

The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point, and of course I support his support for the proposals that we worked up together on “Making tax digital”. I will continue to make those points as vigorously as I can on behalf of the Committee, and I am sure that the Chancellor is listening. We should welcome his acknowledgment that the pre-existing proposals were not workable, and we have already had a bit of adjustment. Now that the door is ajar, perhaps we could have another conversation through the gap.