Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Oral Answers to Questions

Patrick Grady Excerpts
Tuesday 19th December 2023

(10 months, 3 weeks ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Hunt Portrait Jeremy Hunt
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I am happy to write to the hon. Gentleman with the exact numbers, but for people on low incomes—people being paid the lowest legally payable wage—their post-tax real income has gone up by 30% since 2010, because the Conservative party believes in making work pay.

Patrick Grady Portrait Patrick Grady (Glasgow North) (SNP)
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Why is the fiscal situation strong enough to cut national insurance, but not strong enough to return the overseas aid budget to 0.7% of GNI?

Jeremy Hunt Portrait Jeremy Hunt
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Because the way we return the overseas aid budget to 0.7% is to grow the economy. By cutting national insurance, we put nearly 100,000 more people into the national workforce, filling nearly one in 10 vacancies in companies up and down the country.