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I understand that we can return to the issue of the exchange of gifts worth £250 between spouses at a later date, with a view to recommending a change.
That is a key point. If Parliament is on holiday for 17 weeks a year—the Daily Record's estimate, which I am sure that nobody believes—the number of working Thursdays would be reduced by 17.
The advice that I received demonstrates that that area is enormously complicated, for the reasons that I have illustrated, involving birth dates, particular entitlements and interactions with the school system as currently constructed.