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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 11 Jan 2021
Economic Update

"My right hon. Friend the Chancellor knows—not least from the conversations he had last November with businesses in my constituency—how heavily our local economy depends on the hospitality sector and how hard hit it has been. Will he give me and the sector an assurance that he will look sympathetically …..."
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Written Question
Tax Allowances
Wednesday 25th January 2017

Asked by: Conor Burns (Conservative - Bournemouth West)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much has accrued to the public purse through the removal of personal allowances for annual incomes in excess of £100,000 in each of the last three years.

Answered by Jane Ellison

The taper of the Personal Allowance for those earning above £100,000 is estimated to have accrued £2.7 billion in income tax in 2015-16, £2.4 billion in 2014-15 and £2.2 billion in 2013-14. Changes to the tax system affecting high income individuals involve significant behavioural responses which can impact revenues from such measures.

The Personal Allowance taper was introduced by the last Labour government. While the Government recognises that this feature of the income tax system can cause high marginal tax rates, the continued pressure on the public finances mean that the Government has been unable to remove it to date.

The estimates in this response are based on the 2013-14 Survey of Personal Incomes, projected to 2015-16 using economic assumptions consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility’s November 2016 Economic and Fiscal Outlook.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 25 Feb 2013
Economic Policy

"Does the Chancellor agree that rather than sneering at private sector job creation, we should welcome the fact that 1 million new jobs have been created since the general election? Will he assure me, the House and the markets that, in framing the coalition’s economic policy, he will continue to …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 31 Oct 2012
Multiannual Financial Framework

"Given that the Minister and the shadow Minister both said that it is the policy of the Government and Her Majesty’s Opposition that they would wish to see a reduction in the European Union budget and given that there is a motion before the House asking for such a reduction, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 31 Oct 2012
Multiannual Financial Framework

"Given that the hon. Gentleman is going to vote in favour of an amendment calling for spending restraint, does he regret that his party’s Front Benchers did not follow that policy in their 13 years in government?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 31 Oct 2012
Multiannual Financial Framework

"I am grateful to you, Mr Speaker.

At the beginning of the debate, there was an outbreak of consensus between those on the two Front Benches, when the Minister and the hon. Member for Nottingham East (Chris Leslie) agreed that the Government and the Opposition shared the objective of achieving …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 02 Jul 2012
LIBOR (FSA Investigation)

"As my right hon. Friend sets out the task of restoring trust and integrity to the banking system in the light of the appalling revelations at Barclays, he will be aware that we all have constituents who are decent people working in those institutions, who have been badly let down …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 Apr 2012
IMF

"Does my hon. Friend remember the warnings that many gave prior to the creation of the euro that without large regional subventions, the project would fail? Although he is correct in asserting that “I told you so” is not a policy, it is, sadly, increasingly a fact. He has acknowledged …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 02 Feb 2012
Tax Avoidance (Public Servants)

"Does my right hon. Friend understand that those genuinely working on the front line in the public sector will find these revelations obscene? When his review is complete, will he be able to tell us when such practices first entered the public sector, and whether it was under this Government …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 10 Nov 2010
Equitable Life (Payments) Bill

"Will the hon. Gentleman give way?..."
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