Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Oral Answers to Questions

Jim Cunningham Excerpts
Tuesday 9th April 2019

(5 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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The reality is that the SNP Government are putting people off relocating to Scotland and earning higher incomes in Scotland, because those earning £50,000 have to pay an additional £1,500 in tax every year.

Jim Cunningham Portrait Mr Jim Cunningham (Coventry South) (Lab)
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What is the Chancellor going to do to help the WASPI women—Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign—who have been denied their pensions? It has been going on for far too long and it is about time he did something about it.

Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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We have had to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances that we were left with. We have already made improvements in relation to those women being able to retire, but it is right that we do not burden future generations as a result of our existing commitments.