Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Robathan and Rosie Cooper

Wednesday 2nd April 2014 Commons Chamber

[Rosie Cooper (West Lancashire) (Lab)]

6. What recent assessment she has made of the effect of the Government’s economic policies on the cost of living in Northern Ireland.

[The Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office (Mr Andrew Robathan)]

I am answering these questions together as, spookily enough, they are identical in every word. The Government continue to take actions to support hard-working households. Following the Budget, 685,000 people in Northern Ireland will have benefited from the personal allowance changes since 2010. Furthermore, drivers, as well as Northern Ireland households using fuel oils for home energy, will benefit from the cancelling of the fuel duty rise planned for September.