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I am grateful to the committee for looking at FOISA—not because it is broken, but because it could be better and because it is important to keep it alive and up to date in order to meet the challenges ahead.
If ordinary families cannot afford to stay in a hotel because it is no longer competitive, and instead take their money overseas and do not spend it holidaying in the Highlands, Cornwall or Wales, how does that help the UK economy?
Maybe the minister will want to correct that at a future date. I am trying to be helpful. I am happy to let the minister respond to that in order to have clarification in this members’ business debate.
Anyone who goes on holiday in the Mediterranean will still find themselves being pestered on the street by people trying to sell holiday clubs and other variations on the theme of timeshares.
That was not a distraction tactic.The section 104 order will shortly be laid before the Westminster Parliament and will come into force at the same time as the regulations—we need it for the go-live date in June. The instruments are being sequenced to ensure that we have as smooth a transition as possible and that children who go to England and Wales or oth...
A similar order went through at Westminster, but it happened during the holiday period. The Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth phoned me at that point.
I will ask you a couple of quick questions about bank bonuses, as we have you here. Should there be a cap of £2,500 on bonuses and do you support a 10 per cent tax on bank profits?
It is no respecter of age, creed or colour or how much money you have in your bank account. Frankie did not ask to be diagnosed with dementia, but I find that he is discriminated against by having to pay for personal care because he is under 65.