Member

I ask the Minister—I asked him before and he somewhat dismissively dissembled, but the issues are now even more stark—whether he accepts that the LGA’s updated figures are substantially correct when the direct and indirect costs of tied employment on NIC are taken into account. Does he recognise the £1.243 billion shortfall? Last time, he said that he did not really want to understand those figures and that he believed only figures calculated by the Treasury—the same people who told him that only a few hundred people would be affected by IHT.