§ Mr. Carmichaelasked the Lord President of the Council if he will publish the document on the difficulties of devolving taxation powers to the Scottish and Welsh Assemblies referred to by the Minister of State on 22nd February 1977.
§ Mr. John SmithThis material was published in July 1977 in the White Paper, Devolution: Financing the Devolved Services (Cmnd. 6890).
§ Mr. Carmichaelasked the Lord President of the Council if he will publish the research studies into taxation powers for the Scottish and Welsh Assemblies referred to in Command Paper No. 6348, paragraph 108, and in Command Paper No. 6890, paragraphs 30–45.
§ Mr. John SmithThe taxation problem has been in the forefront of the Government's consideration of devolution since the preparation of the 1974 White Paper, Democracy and Devolution: Proposals for Scotland and Wales (Cmnd. 5732).
The Government's conclusions and the information on which they were based were set out in the White Paper of July this year, Cmnd. 6890, to which my hon. Friend refers.