Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Oral Answers to Questions

Alison McGovern Excerpts
Tuesday 1st November 2011

(12 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Chloe Smith Portrait Miss Smith
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My understanding is that, compared with the plans of the previous Government, businesses will pay £3 billion less in employer national insurance contributions and more than £1 billion less in corporation tax, as a result of changes announced in Budget 2010.

Alison McGovern Portrait Alison McGovern (Wirral South) (Lab)
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Small businesses have been frequent attenders at my regular Friday surgeries, and they tell me that business is hard. Now that the hon. Lady’s party’s Chancellor has presided over the slowest economic recovery since the first world war, will she explain to small businesses in Wirral how they are supposed to get out of this mess?