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Debate between Elizabeth Truss and Chris Heaton-Harris
Tuesday 9th April 2019
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Elizabeth Truss
At the Budget in 2018, we put an extra £630 into the pockets of working families on universal credit. The way we will make sure that our country succeeds is by increasing economic growth, building more houses and cutting the cost of living, not by saying that business is the enemy and trying to crash our economy.
Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry) (Con)
What assessment has the Minister made of the rather bizarre policy suggestion of removing personal allowances from the low paid?
Elizabeth Truss
I think it is an extremely strange idea. What we need to do is cut taxes for those on low incomes, and that is what we are doing: from this April we will cut taxes by £130 for those on basic rate taxes, meaning that they will be able to keep more of their own money.