§ Motion made, and Question proposed,
§ That it is expedient to terminate export rebates, and to make further provision as respects cases in which export rebates remain payable, but that any provision about export rebates must apply in the same way to all descriptions of goods.'—[Mr. Howie.]
§ 9.31 pm.
§ Mr. Iain Macleod (Enfield, West)There are two Resolutions in the name of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and, in due course, if we agree to them, a Bill will be brought in. I merely wish to make it clear that we on this side do not regard it as expedient to terminate export rebates and we have a number of questions which we will want to put about the timing and the effects on contracts which have been entered into.
On the second Resolution, on Selective Employment Payments, which will come under the same Bill, again we are anxious about the impact on the development areas and the grey areas, and about many aspects of timing, but the House will probably agree that, rather than have a debate upon the Resolutions, it would be wise to await the Bill and make the position and indeed the opposition of this side of the House clear at that point.
§ 9.33 p.m.
§ The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Harold Lever)I welcome what I think is the practical attitude of the right hon. Member for Enfield, West (Mr. Iain Macleod) in restraining his argument until he can freely deploy it without being within so narrow a rule of order as on a Ways and Means Resolution. This is why I did not deploy the case for this Resolution.
§ Question put and agreed to.