Capital Gains Tax (Rates) Debate
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Clive Efford
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Capital Gains Tax (Rates)
Clive Efford Excerpts(14 years, 5 months ago)
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Yvette Cooper
No, I do not, which is why we introduced cuts in support for the highest rents as a result of the previous Budget, and set out a series of further reforms. I want to return to the point about housing benefit in a moment, because it is important.
Clive Efford (Eltham) (Lab)
On page 33 of the Red Book, paragraph 1.102 makes it quite clear that the Government intend to reduce housing benefit to people of working age if they under-occupy council housing. In his response to an intervention, the Secretary of State referred to pensioners under-occupying social housing. Does that not give the lie to what is in the Red Book, and show the real intention of housing benefit changes, which are an attack on pensioners?