Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Alan Reid Excerpts
Wednesday 7th November 2012

(11 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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I hope the hon. Lady will recognise that we have been working on a cross-party basis, particularly with those parties that believe in maintaining the family of nations in the United Kingdom, to ensure a fair, legal and decisive vote in the referendum. I certainly agree with her characterisation: the spectacle of the SNP Administration using taxpayers’ money to stop disclosure to the public of legal advice that they never sought in the first place—honestly, you couldn’t make it up. It is almost a bit like dropping Iceland from the arc of prosperity.

Alan Reid Portrait Mr Alan Reid (Argyll and Bute) (LD)
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Q14. Rising prices to heat their homes and drive their cars are putting enormous pressures on people, particularly in large rural areas such as Argyll and Bute. What steps will my right hon. Friend take to make the tax system fairer and put more money in the pockets of people on low and middle incomes to help them to pay these rising bills?