§ 10.45 p.m.
The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport (Mr. Bob Brown)I beg to move Amendment No. 24, in page 12, line 15, leave out 'subsection' and insert 'subsections'.
I understand that we are considering at the same time Government Amendment No. 25.
Although these Amendments are complex in form, they are comparatively simple in effect. Their object is to make a slight extension of the exemption from vehicle excise duty which is provided in Clause 6(1) to vehicles purchased here by overseas residents. The present provisions of Clause 6(1) deal with the great majority of such vehicles, private cars. When such vehicles are purchased here by overseas residents, purchase tax can be remitted by the Customs under Section 23 of the Purchase Tax Act, 1963. This, of course, is undoubtedly an incentive to the sale of British cars, and, indeed, some 20,000 cars are sold each year under these arrangements.
As a further incentive, Clause 6(1) exempts these vehicles also from vehicle excise duty. This avoids the troublesome 757 business for foreign visitors of having to take out vehicle excise licences for four or twelve months and then claiming a refund when they leave with the car.
A small number of vehicles—probably no more than 500—purchased by overseas residents are not subject to purchase tax. Examples of the sort of vehicles we have in mind are motorised caravans and personnel carriers of the large Land Rover type. Since Clause 6(1) is related to vehicles on which purchase tax is remitted, the vehicle excise exemption which it provides would not apply to such vehicles. It would be illogical, however, to afford exemption to the larger number—the 20,000 private cars—but not to the 500 or so vehicles I have referred to. I am glad to have the opportunity of moving the Amendment and thus to remove illogicality. Amendment No. 24 is the paving Amendment and No. 25 the substantive.
§ Mr. HigginsIs the hon. Gentleman aware that earlier the Government rejected our proposal to remove vehicle licence duty from disabled drivers? Does he think that this is a more deserving case than that? Secondly, is this concession consistent with our obligations under the G.A.T.T.? How many of our foreign competitors are also selling cars to overseas visitors with the same con-session?
Mr. BrownIt is not for me to comment on the earlier Amendment. This Amendment is an incentive to British car exports and I am sure that the hon. Gentleman must be able to differentiate between vehicle excise licences for the disabled and incentives to exports. I was not in the House at the time, but no doubt one of my right hon. Friends gave good reason for not giving the concession proposed in the earlier Amendment.
§ Dame Irene WardIs the hon. Gentleman really saying that it is more important to give this kind of concession for exports than it is for disabled people? That is what he is saying and I do not agree with him.
Mr. BrownI understand fully the feeling which exists on this sort of matter, but we are not discussing the Amendment relating to disabled persons. I have given an explanation of this 758 Amendment and I have no doubt that one of my right hon. Friends has given a reasonable explanation for the rejection of the earlier Amendment. It is not for me to give an explanation again.
§ Mr. HigginsThe hon. Gentleman cannot get away with this. He must put it in the context of the Bill. The Government propose to give a concession here rather than the concession which they earlier rejected. If the hon. Gentleman is to justify it, he must obviously show sound cause on that basis. In any case, he has not answered my question about the G.A.T.T.
Mr. BrownI apologise to the hon. Gentleman for not answering him about the G.A.T.T. I understand that we are acting in accordance with the agreement to which we are a party.
§ Mr. HigginsHow many of our foreign competitors make the same concession?
Mr. BrownWithout notice I cannot answer that question, but I will write to the hon. Gentleman. I am sure that hon. Members, on reflection, will concede that it is not relevant whether this Amendment should be accepted.
§ Mr. Eldon GriffithsI have only a brief question, but I am not optimistic about getting an answer in the light of the hon. Gentleman's inability to answer my hon. Friend the Member for Worthing (Mr. Higgins). We extend to a large number of diplomatic personnel and members of foreign missions and international organisations such as the International Coffee Board and the International Sugar Organisation, freedom from purchase tax and freedom from tax on vehicles purchased in this country.
There are on the staff of these organisations many people who are not covered by consular conventions or diplomatic treaties—gardeners, au pair girls, child minders, and so on. If these people should purchase vehicles in this country, will they be able to do so without paying tax? This is a straight factual question that deserves a straight factual answer. If the answer is yes, then the case that has been made from the Opposion Front Bench and by my hon. Friend the Member for Tynemouth (Dame Irene Ward) is even more powerful. It cannot 759 be right that the hangers-on of diplomatic and international missions who are not covered by consular and diplomatic immunities should benefit more than the disabled.
§ Mr. Arthur LewisAs I understand it, the object is to encourage people to buy cars by allowing them to run the cars free of tax for twelve months before taking them abroad, and thus to help exports. What action is taken to ensure that this happens? I can assure the Joint Parliamentary Secretary that there are thousands of unlicensed vehicles on the road and neither his Department nor any other Department does anything about it.
I know of a car bought on this basis which has been unlicensed for two years. Although it has been reported the car is still unlicensed and still unexported. The Department says it is a matter for the police. The police say it is a matter for the G.L.C. enforcement officer. The enforcement officer says that there are so many thousands of these cases that he cannot do anything about it.
It takes 18 months or two years before a case can be brought to court, and when it gets to court only a nominal fine of £5 is imposed. If the offender does not want to pay the fine he does not do so. After another two years he might again be fined £5 and may again refuse to pay it. After about five years the police give up, the enforcement officer gives up, and the car is sold to a car dealer. The car dealer then sells the car again to an individual who takes it out on the road knowing that it is not taxed or insured. If that man has a hit-and-run type accident and somebody notices the number and takes the matter up with the Ministry, the Ministry will then say "The car should have been exported".
§ Mr. Deputy Speaker(Mr. Harry Gourlay)Order. The hon. Gentleman is getting a little wide of the Amendment that is before the House.
§ Mr. LewisI was trying to explain what was now happening, that not only a coach and horses but a hundred-and-one vehicles were being driven through the existing legislation. To what extent have the present abuses, which have been going on for years, been encouraged by the Treasury? Will the Parliamentary Secretary assure me that these people will 760 not be given further encouragement by the Bill?
I was going on to say, Mr. Gourlay, that people have been dodging the column for years. These cars should have been exported two or three years ago. But has the Ministry taken action? No. The Bill will give further opportunities to people to dodge the column. The Parliamentary Secretary has not said how he can guarantee that these cars will go for export. Is it not possible to ensure that if the cars are not exported within twelve months the whole of the arrears of duty shall be payable, rather than to leave the situation to go on for even more years?
Mr. Bob BrownAs the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Eldon Griffiths) said, there are certain concessions to take account of diplomatic arrangements, but the matter of gardeners and au pair girls is a different issue altogether. Anybody who can be identified as a genuine foreign visitor will have the concession, otherwise they will not.
My hon. Friend the Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis) mentioned certain abuses. I am sorry to say that the matter of the dodging of vehicle excise licence has become almost a mania with my hon. Friend. There can hardly be a car in the West Ham area which he cannot identify quite readily and at will.
We are on this aspect dealing with some 500 vehicles a year. I find it difficult to understand how countless vehicles are running around the country years after purchase, after they should have been exported, without having paid the duty. I cannot understand such an allegation, when we are here talking about only 500 Land Rovers and personnel carriers.
The system under which the vehicles have "no sale" or export restrictions attached to them is a quite distinctive one. It will be extended to the vehicles to which I have referred. This will put prospective purchasers and taxation authorities on their guard against any attempt to evade the conditions of the exemptions.
§ Sir Gerald Nabarro (Worcestershire, South)I had not intended to intervene until I heard the Joint Parliamentary Secretary deride what was said by the 761 hon. Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis), and I rise only to reinforce what he said about the proliferation of licence evasion at every level—
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerOrder. The hon. Gentleman must know that we are on Report and dealing with Amendments 24 and 25, which have nothing to do with general licence evasion. The hon. Gentleman may only deal with evasion which may arise out of the Amendments.
§ Sir G. NabarroI will come to that. I had just referred to the proliferation of licence evasion at every level. The Joint Parliamentary Secretary will recall that I sent him last week an example of the kind of evasion about which the hon. Member for West Ham, North complains. If the Minister cannot stop evasion of that kind, which concerns citizens of this country, how does he propose to stop evasion where vehicles are purported to have been bought for export, which is immeasurably more difficult than apprehending evasion in this country? It is reckoned that there are more than a million unlicensed vehicles running round our roads—
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerOrder. I have ruled already that in touching on that aspect of licence evasion the hon. Gentleman is out of order. Perhaps he will address his remarks specifically to the Amendment.
§ Sir G. NabarroI will finish my sentence. It is estimated that there are more than a million unlicensed vehicles running round our roads, including vehicles which are supposed to be en route to export markets. The fact is that neither the Ministry's officials, nor the licensing authorities, nor the police are in a position to apprehend the offenders. The police take no notice of complaints—
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerOrder. The hon. Gentleman is disregarding the Ruling of the Chair. Perhaps he will address his remarks specifically to the Amendment.
§ Sir G. NabarroI am endeavouring to do that, and I intend to go on making this speech, attaching my remarks to the Amendment.
If the police are not in a position to apprehend the widespread evasion with motor cars in this country, how can they apprehend motor vehicles which are pur- 762 ported to be en route to export markets but which are not exported?
I want the Joint Parliamentary Secretary to answer this specific question. Has he read the letter which I wrote him last week—
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerOrder. As I understand the hon. Gentleman's submission, the letter has nothing to do with the Amendment, and therefore I cannot allow him to speak further on that.
§ Sir G. NabarroI am sorry you have not read the letter, Mr. Deputy Speaker.
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerI may not have read the letter, but I have been listening to the hon. Gentleman. I gather from his remarks that the letter does not deal with cars which are covered by the Amendment.
§ Sir G. NabarroI am asking the hon. Gentleman whether he has read the letter, because when he replies to the debate I hope he will tell me whether the cars were en route to export markets. That is the point.
In this case, a dealer in Reading was forced to recover nine vehicles on account of the non-payment of sums due under hire-purchase contracts. Of the nine vehicles, seven had not been taxed. Were they export vehicles? I doubt it.
§ Sir G. NabarroI will not come off it. We are being taxed at the rate of £25 a year as perfectly legal car drivers because of the amount of evasion which occurs at present.
I hope that the Joint Parliamentary Secretary will not deride the hon. Member for West Ham, North, because he is exactly right and the Minister is exactly wrong. He ought to find out what is the extent of evasion, both in respect of vehicles purchased and said to be for export but not subsequently exported, and in respect of those purchased for use in this country and not licensed. The two are parallel problems, resulting in a huge loss of revenue and the legitimate licence owner being taxed more heavily than otherwise he need be.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinWe recognise the value when Ministers from Departments other than the Treasury come down to the House to take part in debates on the 763 Finance Bill on matters that primarily concern the interests of their Department. But the House is entitled to expect that when Ministers from other Departments come down they should be able to answer the questions put to them from both sides.
It is not good enough for the Parliamentary Secretary, in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Worthing (Mr. Higgins), to say that something is nothing to do with him. The hon. Gentleman is a member of the Government. When he stands at the Dispatch Box answering a debate on an Amendment of this kind he is answering for the Government, and he has as much responsibility as any other member of the Government who speaks on the Finance Bill. The Parliamentary Secretary has delivered himself of a series of deplorably inadequate replies to the questions that have been put from both sides.
The hon. Gentleman was asked how this concession was justifiable when the concession which the Government turned down earlier in relation to disabled drivers was not felt to be justifiable. He merely said that it was nothing to do with him.
He was asked whether it was in accordance with our obligations under G.A.T.T. All that he could say was that he had no reason to believe that it was not. He said that it was an export incentive. This is not an indirect tax which is allowed to be relieved under G.A.T.T. He was asked what other countries gave comparable relief in the export of cars from their territories. He had no idea of any other country that gave this relief.
The Parliamentary Secretary appeared to be supremely complacent when faced with the evidence put to him by his hon. Friend the Member for West Ham, North (Mr. Arthur Lewis) about the use of this concession by those who wished to evade road tax. This is not good enough.
We recognise that the Clause and the Amendment are both, in their way, concessions intended to help exports. But I believe that the House is entitled to mark its disapproval of a Minister who
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| Allaun, Frank (Salford, E.) | Archer, Peter | Atkinson, Norman (Tottenham) |
| Alldritt, Walter | Ashley, Jack | Barnett, Joel |
§ comes down and delivers himself of such inadequate answers by pressing the matter to a Division. I hope that my right hon. and hon. Friends will join me in dividing against the Government's Amendment.
Mr. Bob BrownI find it hard to take from the hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)— [Interruption.] With the leave of the House—
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerOrder. I remind the House that the mover of an Amendment on Report does not require the leave of the House to speak more than once.
Mr. BrownThank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I thought that I was in order.
I find it hard to take from the hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford his talk about inadequate replies. The replies that he is beefing about have, in the main, been in response to an earlier Amendment which I have said that one or other of my right hon. Friends has already adequately dealt with.
Concerning the remarks of the hon. Member for Worcestershire, South (Sir G. Nabarro), bearing in mind what has gone before, particularly the Budget statement of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I should think that he might have said his last word on vehicle excise duties.
§ Sir G. Nabarrorose—
Mr. BrownNo. I have already given way sufficiently.
We are not discussing vehicle excise duties; we are discussing a concession affecting about 500 vehicles per year. We are introducing this Amendment after discussion with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, whose members are keen to have it to improve their sales. Therefore, I am surprised that the Opposition should see fit to divide on it.
§ Question put, That the Amendment be made:—
§ The House divided: Ayes 226, Noes 170.
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Further Amendment made: No. 25, in page 12, line 25, leave out from '9' to end of line 26 and insert:
'then the provisions of subsection (2C) of this section shall apply in relation to that vehicle.
(2B) Where in the case of any mechanically propelled vehicle it is shown to the satisfaction of the authority with whom the vehicle is registered—
that authority may exempt the vehicle from duty under this Act for a period of twelve months subject to specified conditions, being such conditions as the Minister may from
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time to time think necessary for the protection of the revenue; but if at any time during those twelve months any of the conditions subject to which the exemption is granted is not complied with, the provisions of subsection (2C) of this section shall apply in relation to the vehicle.(2C) Where under subsection (2A) or (2B) of this section the provisions of this subsection are to apply in relation to a vehicle, the vehicle shall be deemed never to have been exempted from duty under the said subsection (2A) or (2B)'.—[Mr. Harold Lever.]
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerWe now come to Amendment No. 27.
§ Mr. John SmithOn a point of order. May I draw your attention to Amendment No. 296, which is supported by hon. Members from both the Liberal and Tory Parties. It is the only Amendment to Clause 9, and unless it is debated, since the Committee stage was 769 taken upstairs, the House will have had no opportunity—
§ Mr. Deputy SpeakerOrder. I cannot hear anything further on that point of order, since the selection of Amendments is a matter for Mr. Speaker, and the Amendment has not been selected for debate.