Budget Responsibility and National Audit Bill [HL]
Debate between Lord Barnett and Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay
Monday 29th November 2010
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Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay
My Lords, I listened at considerable length to the Minister reading out his brief in response to the amendments but I wondered whether, by any chance, he could do me the courtesy of answering my question, which I thought was fairly simple and clear. Why are we having just the word “intergenerational” with fairness? He has said that he does not want a Bible. I am suggesting that he might make it shorter, but why “intergenerational”? Why not any other sort of fairness? The document says that these are:
“The Treasury’s objectives for fiscal policy”.
This is a government document, so could the Minister please address the question that I raised?