| Heading: |
Tax Allowances: Low Incomes |
| Question ID: |
1793028 |
| UIN: |
44606 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-07 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4831 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Ian Byrne
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| Asking Member handle: |
IanByrneMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@IanByrneMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of freezing the personal tax allowance on low income households. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-28 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4797 |
| Answering Member display name: |
James Murray
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| Answering Member handle: |
jamesmurray_ldn
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@jamesmurray_ldn
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| Answer text: |
The Government is committed to keeping taxes for working people as low as possible while ensuring fiscal responsibility. At our first Budget, we decided not to extend the freeze on personal tax thresholds which was implemented by the previous Government. ... |
| Original answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
14 |
| Answering body name: |
Treasury |
| Tweeted: |
true |