I assume that that was his code for saying that he cannot, therefore, support the euro, given that it is such a weak currency. Friend the Member for West Dorset gave a splendidly cogent tour de force of the Bill and its background. We all know that there have been four years of taxation by stealth to build up the necessary surpluses, allegedly, to sweeten the electorate in an election year. The disappointment has been the fact that there has been little sign of the delivery of additional Government expenditure to date. Gentleman says that there has been no delivery.
Delivery is under way.
The main task of my hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset was to expose the 33 clauses that deal with the aggregates tax. It is not, in fact, a tax on aggregates, but a land tax. As the Chief Secretary's comments suggested, it echoes the development land tax. The Government have not set in stone the promise that tax revenues will be offset by alleged reductions in national insurance.