Kevin Brennan
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(8 years, 10 months ago)
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Damian Hinds
My hon. Friend is right to highlight the broad benefit of our policy. Increases in the personal allowance and the higher-rate threshold during the current Parliament will benefit 30 million people. It is not possible to make reliable projections for an individual parliamentary constituency, but I can tell my hon. Friend that 2.28 million taxpayers in the west midlands have benefited from personal allowance increases to date, and that a typical basic-rate taxpayer is £825 better off.
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West) (Lab)
Apart from specific tax steps, what steps is the Minister taking to ensure that employers actually pay the minimum wage?
Damian Hinds
Minimum wage compliance is, of course, vital, and work in that regard is ongoing. Universal credit encourages people to work more hours, and, in general, they should be doing higher-paid work.