UK Exit from the European Union
Debate between Andrea Jenkyns and Margaret Ferrier(7 years, 6 months ago)
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Andrea Jenkyns
I can name one. As an ex-retailer, who started at Gregg’s bakery at 16 and had a retail management career and various other business careers, I was speaking to the high street shops in my constituency. They say to us, “Why can we not have a two-tier VAT system, where VAT is cheaper on the high street and if people want to buy online they pay higher VAT, in order to help save our high streets and drive footfall into our towns?” I wrote to the Chancellor last year asking whether that could be a possibility, but we cannot do it because of EU legislation. We need control over such things, so that is one area I would like to look into.
Margaret Ferrier (Rutherglen and Hamilton West) (SNP)
Will the hon. Lady give way?