Lord Barnett
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(10 years, 6 months ago)
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Lord Newby
My Lords, the policy that we have already adopted will assist people in those areas, as it will everywhere else. We are looking at the scope for extension of the rural fuel rebate scheme, which gives an additional 5p rebate in the most sparsely populated areas. We hope to be able to make an announcement of that in the relatively near future.
Lord Barnett (Lab)
My Lords, the Question on the Order Paper asked the Minister a simple question. Should not his answer have been no?
Lord Newby
No, my Lords. The noble Lord knows better than anybody else that it would be foolish to set out at this point firm plans for individual taxes for the course of the next Parliament.