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Catherine West

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Ministerial Corrections
Thursday 20th December 2018

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The following is an extract from an Urgent Question on ONS Decisions: Student Loans on 18 December 2018.
Catherine West Portrait Catherine West (Hornsey and Wood Green) (Lab)
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In the short term, will the Treasury review the inflation-busting 6.3% rate, and in the longer term will the Government admit that feeble wage growth is at the bottom of this problem?

Elizabeth Truss Portrait Elizabeth Truss
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That is a slightly strange question from the hon. Lady, given we have just seen the highest real wage growth for 10 years coming through our economy.

[Official Report, 18 December 2018, Vol. 651, c. 652.]

Letter of correction from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury:

An error has been identified in the response I gave to the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Catherine West).

The correct response should have been:

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