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We are now able, after particular elections, to tell people that they have not filled in their date of birth, for example, or that they have instead put down the date on which they signed the form.
The subsidy will normally be paid on a particular date—the due date—but you have been asked by two committee members now whether you have received that money in advance of the due date.
Therefore, at this stage, I cannot give a firm date because I do not want to give the committee and, indeed, the farmers, false certainty that it will be done by a certain date.
Think what we could do with the prudent use of borrowing powers following Keynes’s counter-cyclical wisdom, boosting the economy in times of recession and leaving a lasting legacy of better infrastructure.
The Scottish Independence Referendum Act 2013 contained such a provision with Section 1 subsections (5) to (7) giving Scottish Ministers power, by order approved by the Scottish Parliament, to modify the date of the referendum to a later date.