Companies: Remuneration Debate

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Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall

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Companies: Remuneration

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Wednesday 23rd March 2016

(8 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall Portrait Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall (Lab)
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My Lords, in an earlier answer the Minister made a somewhat surprising statement to the effect that his right honourable friend the Chancellor had been working throughout his tenure to reduce inequality. Can he tell the House how things would have been different if he had not?

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Inequality is reducing, my Lords. As I said earlier, we are working hard on the national minimum wage increases, which are the highest ever, and we have the national living wage coming in in April.