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Written Question
Budget October 2024
Thursday 21st November 2024

Asked by: Mel Stride (Conservative - Central Devon)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to page 3 of the Autumn Budget 2024, published on 30 October, what her definition is of working people.

Answered by Darren Jones - Minister for Intergovernmental Relations

A working person is someone who goes out to work and works for their income. The government has committed to not increase taxes on working people, which is why it is not increasing the basic, higher or additional rates of Income Tax, National Insurance contributions or VAT

Working people will not see an increase in the taxes they pay on their payslip due to the tax changes announced at Budget.

Written Question
Winter Fuel Payment
Tuesday 10th September 2024

Asked by: Mel Stride (Conservative - Central Devon)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to p.9 of the policy document entitled Fixing the Foundations, published on 29 July 2024, what discussions her Department had with the Office for Budget Responsibility before estimating the savings to the public purse from limiting eligibility to Winter Fuel Payments to people in receipt of Pension Credit.

Answered by Darren Jones - Minister for Intergovernmental Relations

The Chancellor’s statement of 29 July made hard choices to reduce immediate spending pressures . It was not a fiscal event and was not accompanied by an economic and fiscal forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

The Chancellor commissioned a forecast from the OBR in her statement of 29 July, to be published alongside a Budget on 30 October. The OBR will certify the methodology behind the costings of measures announced on 29 July, including the targeting of Winter Fuel Payments at recipients of Pension Credit and certain other means-tested benefits, in the usual way at the Budget.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 17 Oct 2022
Economic Update

"I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. It was both frank and bold, and it appears—in the very short term, at least—to have steadied the markets. One point that he raised at the Dispatch Box—although it was absent from his statement earlier today—was his renewed commitment to our financial institutions, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Oct 2022
Economic Situation

"My right hon. Friend the Chancellor was quite right to bring forward the date for the medium-term fiscal plan and the Office for Budget Responsibility forecast. He now has, of course, a huge challenge in landing those plans in order to reassure the markets. He has to get the fiscal …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Oct 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"I very much welcome my right hon. Friend’s decision to bring forward the medium-term plan and the OBR forecast; he has listened, and he is right. However, may I caution him to reach out as much as he can across both sides of the House, to be certain that he …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 23 Sep 2022
The Growth Plan

"I welcome much in this statement. There is a great deal that will help millions of families and businesses up and down the country. There is, however, a vast void at the centre of the announcements that have been made this morning: the lack of an independent OBR forecast. At …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 07 Sep 2022
Financial Services and Markets Bill

"I rise to broadly support the Bill. I echo the congratulations of my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Rishi Sunak) to my hon. Friend the Member for Salisbury (John Glen) on all his work, and I thank him for his appearances before the Select Committee in that …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 28 Jun 2022
Oral Answers to Questions

"Our country is facing its highest tax burden since the 1950s, although it should be acknowledged that, more recently, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor has been bringing taxes down rather than putting them up. Does he agree that, with the elevated level of inflation, now is not the time …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Tue 14 Jun 2022
New Wealth Taxes

"The hon. Gentleman is making interesting points. I accept that there has to be a limit to the amount of wealth that can be accumulated by a small number of individuals; I do not think anybody would argue that equity is not important to some degree. He mentions the global …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 26 May 2022
Economy Update

"I broadly commend the announcement. My right hon. Friend has made a significant intervention to channel billions of pounds in a targeted series of transfer payments to those who most need it, but, as he will know, similar approaches were taken in the pandemic and there were many who fell …..."
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