Member

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Livermore, for his most courteous and detailed replies but, in the end, I wish the Government would take a leaf out of his book and do what he says. We need detailed replies, and the document of 14 November or the HMRC’s costing issued on 18 December are very thin gruel. We can look at what they say, and see that they draw on the Autumn Budget, the OBR’s analysis and the other information given by HMRC, about numbers affected and estimated costs—but they have not been borne out by the subsequent evidence.