HC Deb 17 December 1998 vol 322 cc753-4W
Mr. Gibb

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Clydesdale (Mr. Hood) of 10 December 1997,Official Report, column 297, on ECOFIN, if he will place copies of (a) the Code of Conduct Group first interim report to ECOFIN, (b) the EU Commission's first combined first annual report on the implementation of the Code of Conduct for Business Taxation and fiscal state aid, (c) the progress report for the EU Commission on work concerning the taxation of income from savings and a common system of taxation from interest and royalty payments between associated companies and (d) the draft mandate for a study on company taxation, in the Library. [64335]

Dawn Primarolo

The Commission document containing the First Annual Report on the implementation of the Code of Conduct for Business Taxation and Fiscal State Aid and the Progress report on the work concerning the taxation of income from savings and a common system of taxation for interest and royalty payments between associated companies, was formally deposited in Parliament on 4 December 1998.

The Code of Conduct Group's first interim report to ECOFIN is confidential. The draft mandate has been withdrawn.