Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Austin Mitchell (Labour), on Friday, 26 June 2009, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 21 members in total.

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FINANCIAL PRIVILEGE AND BUSINESS RATE SUPPLEMENTS BILL

That this House deprecates the Government's decision to invoke financial privilege to prevent the House of Lords returning its sensible amendments to the Business Rate Supplements Bill which would have prevented retrospective punishment of port businesses for the incompetence and failures of the Valuation Office Agency; views this pathetic and petty decision not as an invocation of the spirit of Lloyd George to protect the powers of the Commons but as a cowardly attempt to conceal the disastrous consequences of the massive retrospective rate bills the Government is imposing on the ports and its failure to manage the Valuation Office Agency and to prevent it punishing ports; and very much regrets that in doing so the Government and this House lose the opportunity to right a serious wrong and protect Britain's ports from the insolvencies, job losses and diversion of trade and investments which will result.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1756 

Session

2008-09

Other sponsors

Joe Benton

Kelvin Hopkins

Lynne Jones

Martin Caton

Ian Cawsey

Subjects

Taxation Shipping

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk