Finance No.2 Bill: call for evidence
9 May 2024
Do you have relevant expertise and experience or a special interest in the Finance (No.2) Bill 2023-24, which is currently passing through Parliament?
If so, you can submit your views in writing to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee which is going to consider this Bill.
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The Public Bill Committee is now able to receive written evidence. The sooner you send in your submission, the more time the Committee will have to take it into consideration. The Public Bill Committee will scrutinise the Bill line by line. The first sitting of the Public Bill Committee is expected to be on Tuesday 21 May and the Committee is scheduled to report by Thursday 23 May 2024. However, please note that when the Committee concludes its consideration of the Bill it is no longer able to receive written evidence and it can conclude earlier than the expected deadline of 5.00pm on Thursday 23 May 2024. You are strongly advised to submit your written evidence as soon as possible. |
Aims of the Bill
The Finance No.2 Bill 2023-24 was published on 13 March 2024. The Bill’s Explanatory Notes and full details of the Bill’s scrutiny to date are collated on its Bill page on the Parliament site. The Bill received a second reading on Wednesday 17 April.
Selected clauses from the Bill are debated by the Committee of the Whole House at the start of the Bill’s Committee stage. In the case of the current Bill, the debate was held on Wednesday 8 May.
The selection of clauses is set out in a programme motion, which was agreed by the House at the conclusion of the Bill’s second reading on 17 April.
The remaining clauses and schedules will be debated in a Public Bill Committee, which is expected to begin its scrutiny of the Bill on Tuesday 21 May. This includes:
- Clause 5 (High income child benefit charge);
- Clauses 6 to 11 (Measure relating to property);
- Clauses 14 to 18 (Creative reliefs);
- Clauses 20 to 21 (Measures relating to financial services);
- Clauses 22 to 24 (Other measures)
- any new Clauses or new Schedules relating to the subject matter of those Clauses or those Schedules;
- remaining proceedings on the Bill.
Follow the progress of the Finance No.2 Bill
The Finance No. 2 Bill 2023–24 was introduced to the House of Commons on 13 March 2024. Second reading was held on 17 April 2024.
- Bills before Parliament: Finance No.2 Bill 2023–24
- Read Explanatory Notes: Finance No.2 Bill 2023–24
- House of Commons Library Briefing Paper
Guidance on submitting written evidence
Deadline for written evidence submissions
The Public Bill Committee is now able to receive written evidence. The sooner you send in your submission, the more time the Committee will have to take it into consideration and possibly reflect it in an amendment. The order in which amendments are taken in Committee will be available in due course under Selection of Amendments on the Bill documents pages. Once the Committee has dealt with an amendment it will not revisit it.
The first sitting of the Public Bill Committee is expected to be on Tuesday 21 May and the Committee is scheduled to report by Thursday 23 May. However, please note that when the Committee concludes its consideration of the Bill it is no longer able to receive written evidence and it can conclude earlier than the expected deadline of 5.00pm on Thursday 23 May. You are strongly advised to submit your written evidence as soon as possible.
Your submission should be emailed to scrutiny@parliament.uk
Further guidance on submitting written evidence can be found here (pdf, 1MB).
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