Double Taxation Agreement (Hansard, 21 December 1999)

HC Deb 21 December 1999 vol 341 c581W 581W

§ Mr. Colman
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer to what parliamentary scrutiny he proposes the UK's Double Taxation Agreement with the US will be subject. [102908]

§ Dawn Primarolo
New Double Taxation Conventions are laid before the House as a Schedule to a draft Order in Council. The usual procedure is that the draft Order is considered first by the Select Committee on Statutory Instruments and then by a Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation.