Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Charles Kennedy and Baroness Morgan of Cotes

Tuesday 10th December 2013 Commons Chamber

[Nicky Morgan]

My hon. Friend is right to say that wages and salaries suffered their fastest drop between 2007 and 2009, and that drop started in 2004, as the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Mr Byrne) has already admitted. Interestingly, the shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury could not answer the question about whether Labour’s calculation of wages and household disposable income includes the tax changes we have made, and therefore does not reflect the fact that we are putting more money into people’s pockets.

[Mr Charles Kennedy (Ross, Skye and Lochaber) (LD)]

2. What progress he has made in extending the rural fuel rebate pilot scheme; and if he will make a statement.