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Lord Brennan of Canton

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Tuesday 25th June 2013

(11 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Gauke Portrait Mr Gauke
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I do agree. What we have done is quite a contrast with what was done by the last Government, who increased the amount of income tax that some low earners would have to pay by £232. Now the equivalents of those people have been taken out of income tax altogether.

Lord Brennan of Canton Portrait Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West) (Lab)
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If everything is better for the average family, why did the Institute for Fiscal Studies say that the average family was £891 worse off? Was the IFS wrong?

David Gauke Portrait Mr Gauke
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We do not accept those figures. What I will say is that we have been prepared to tackle the biggest deficit in our peacetime history. We have taken measures to put the public finances back on a sustainable footing, with no help from the Labour party, which has opposed every measure that we have taken to do that.

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