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Housing, Communities and Local Government
Thursday 11th April 2019

(5 years, 10 months ago)

Ministerial Corrections
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The following is an extract from Treasury questions on Tuesday 9 April 2019.
Stephen McPartland Portrait Stephen McPartland (Stevenage) (Con)
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6. What progress he has made on reducing the total amount of tax that people pay.

Mel Stride Portrait The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mel Stride)
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This Government have made very significant progress in reducing the burden of taxation on the low paid, including by recently increasing the personal allowance to £12,500—thus taking 1.7 million of the lowest paid out of tax all together since 2017.

[Official Report, 9 April 2019, Vol. 658, c. 165.]

Letter of correction from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury:

An error has been identified in the response I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Stevenage (Stephen McPartland).

The correct response should have been:

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