Lord Austin of Dudley
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(12 years, 7 months ago)
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Mr Gauke
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his support for the policy. As we said at the time of the Budget and in the Budget document, we are looking to explore with charities dependent on large donations how this can be implemented without it having a major impact on them. Of course, we will take into account the concerns of universities and others.
Ian Austin (Dudley North) (Lab)
Why does the Chancellor think his Budget is now widely seen as a complete and utter shambles?
Mr George Osborne
We cut business tax to make this country more competitive and to create jobs; we delivered an income tax cut for 24 million working people; we took 2 million low-paid people out of tax altogether; and, above all, we continue to clear up the economic mess left to us by the Labour party.