Finance Bill Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Finance Bill

Matt Hancock Excerpts
Thursday 15th July 2010

(13 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Justine Greening Portrait Justine Greening
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I would have thought that the hon. Gentleman was so intelligent that he could do the maths himself. The calculation is pretty straightforward. It is a bit like doing a tax calculation where someone has an allowance and then a rate, and they apply it to the excess of the allowance that they are paying in extra.

Matt Hancock Portrait Matthew Hancock (West Suffolk) (Con)
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Does my hon. Friend remember a distributional table ever being placed in a Budget under the Labour Government?

Justine Greening Portrait Justine Greening
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I have no recollection of that, but I will not take up more of the time of the Committee. The last figures that I set out probably spoke louder—