Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Thérèse Coffey Excerpts
Tuesday 13th July 2010

(14 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Danny Alexander Portrait Danny Alexander
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That pay rise will be pro rata, but people will benefit from the changes to tax credits, for example, and the significant increase in the child tax credit for those with children. That will help to ensure that many of the people with children in the hon. Lady’s constituency whom she is describing will not be driven into poverty, as they were in many instances were under the previous Government.

Thérèse Coffey Portrait Dr Thérèse Coffey (Suffolk Coastal) (Con)
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T7. I and I am sure many other Members have received many representations from Equitable Life policyholders who felt very shabbily treated by the last Government. Can the Minister give me some assurance that under the new coalition Government, they will treated a little more equitably?