National Minimum Wage

Baroness Laing of Elderslie Excerpts

Wednesday 15th January 2014 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Mrs Eleanor Laing)]

I must advise the House that Mr Speaker has selected the amendment in the name of the Prime Minister.

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[Mr Newmark]

Will the hon. Lady—[Interruption.]

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Mrs Eleanor Laing)]

Order. The Chair has noted that the hon. Member for Skipton and Ripon (Julian Smith) has departed immediately and too soon.

[Mr Newmark]

I fear that the hon. Lady’s answer might have frightened my colleague away. I promise that I will not run away after she answers me. Will she at least acknowledge that this Government, by raising to £10,000 the level at which tax hits, thereby taking 2.7 million people out of taxation altogether, have indeed helped the low-paid?