HC Deb 16 July 1973 vol 860 cc205-6

Lords Amendment: No. 61, in page 93, line 10, after "Board" insert and the payment of any interest on money so borrowed

Mr. Dean

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.

This is a technical amendment.

Mr. Dell

The Minister should not be allowed to get away with calling this a technical amendment. The Department forgot that on money borrowed one has to pay interest. To rectify that does not seem to be a technical amendment.

Sir B. Rhys Williams

I was also of the opinion that this was not a technical amendment, because it gives rise to the question of the circumstances in which the board will incur debt. The House is entitled to be enlightened before it agrees to the amendment.

Mr. Dean

Indeed, it is a technical amendment. All that it does is to remove any uncertainty there might have been in the interpretation of the paragraph and bring the wording into line with that used in Clause 95(2)(b).

Question put and agreed to.

Subsequent Lords amendments agreed to.

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