Mark Spencer
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(12 years, 7 months ago)
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Mr Osborne
As the hon. Gentleman knows, because he is an experienced Member and sits on the Treasury Committee, there is a very important principle of taxpayer confidentiality, so I am not shown the individual tax returns of businesses or indeed individuals. We have recently published data on the average tax rate that people on the highest incomes were paying under the last Labour Government, and we can see that it was very much lower than Treasury Ministers were telling us.
Mr Mark Spencer (Sherwood) (Con)
T9. Can the Chancellor tell me how many of my constituents will benefit from the lifting of the personal tax threshold?
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Danny Alexander)
Information is not available at constituency level, but I can confirm that for the east midlands government region 1.7 million people will benefit in 2013-14 from the largest ever increase in the personal allowance, which was announced in the Budget. Some 152,000 people will have been taken out of tax altogether in the east midlands by the policies of this Government.