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Charlie Elphicke Excerpts

Tuesday 6th March 2012 Commons Chamber

[Charlie Elphicke (Dover) (Con)]

Should we not look at providing tax help for hard-pressed families in totality and in the round, in particular, through measures such as increasing the personal allowance to £10,000 for income tax?

[Miss Smith]

I certainly agree, and my hon. Friend will know, just as other Members of this House do, that that measure would take more than 1 million low-income earners out of tax altogether, which is a healthy start and a step on the path to our economic recovery.