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Oral Answers to Questions

Patrick Grady Excerpts
Tuesday 5th March 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mel Stride Portrait The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mel Stride)
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It is not possible to provide an estimate down at constituency level about the impacts of the changes in the personal allowance, but I can inform my hon. Friend that no fewer than 234,000 individuals have been taken out of income tax altogether who are living in the south-east, which obviously includes Dover.

Patrick Grady Portrait Patrick Grady (Glasgow North) (SNP)
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Does the Chancellor agree with his right hon. Friend the Environment Secretary, who has told me on a number of occasions that he believes other European countries are looking enviously at the United Kingdom’s withdrawal deal, especially in the context of all the economic analysis the Treasury has carried out on Brexit scenarios?