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Oral Answers to Questions

Alan Mak Excerpts
Tuesday 1st March 2016

(8 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alan Mak Portrait Mr Alan Mak (Havant) (Con)
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About 40,000 people in my constituency have benefited from the rise in the personal allowance since 2010. Can the Chancellor confirm that the Government will continue to help hard-working people to keep more of the money that they earn?

George Osborne Portrait Mr Osborne
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That is absolutely what the Government were elected to deliver. We have manifesto commitments to deliver not just the £50,000 threshold for the higher rate, but a £12,500 personal allowance, so that more people can see the benefit of either paying no tax if they are low paid, or paying less tax if they are better paid.