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Wednesday 1st December 2010
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Bob Russell (Colchester) (LD)
Does the Prime Minister think it fair that a war widow has to pay income tax on her war widow’s pension?
The Prime Minister
My hon. Friend raises a very good point. We need to look at all those sorts of issues under the work that we are doing on the military covenant—there are very complicated issues of pensions and interaction with taxes. I do not want to give a flip answer from the Dispatch Box; we have a proper process of looking at the military covenant, which is the right way to do things.