§ Question proposed, That this schedule be the Eighth schedule to the Bill.
§ Mr. OttawaySchedule 8 relates to aggregates levy repayments and credits and the reimbursement arrangements. As the schedule is detailed, long and extensive, it would be helpful to the Committee if the Minister could briefly set out his thinking on it.
§ Mr. TimmsI do not have a great deal to add to what I have already said on the subject. My remarks on clause 32 apply equally to schedule 8. I do not apologise for repeatedly making the point that all these arrangements are wholly conventional and reproduce arrangements that work well elsewhere in the tax system. We need provisions on repayments. Such provisions are set out in the schedule. They work well elsewhere, and I have no doubt at all that they will work extremely well in this measure.
§ Question put and agreed to.
§ Schedule 8 agreed to.