HANSARDCommons11 Apr 20195 contributions
Justice
The following is an extract from Treasury questions on Tuesday 9 April 2019.
Stephen McPartland (Stevenage) (Con)
6. What progress he has made on reducing the total amount of tax that people pay.
This Government have made very significant progress in reducing the burden of taxation on the low paid, including by recently increasing the personal allowance to £12,500—thus taking 1.7 million of the lowest paid out of tax all together since 2017.
[Official Report, 9 April 2019, Vol. 658, c. 165.]
Letter of correction from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury:
An error has been identified in the response I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Stevenage (Stephen McPartland).
The correct response should have been:
This Government have made very significant progress in reducing the burden of taxation on the low paid, including by recently increasing the personal allowance to £12,500—thus taking 1.7 million of the lowest paid out of tax all together since 2015-16.