Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the increase in the personal allowance threshold and the one per cent public sector pay cap on household incomes in the last seven years.

The Government has made no formal assessment of the impact of the increase of the personal allowance threshold on household incomes. For individuals, a typical basic rate taxpayer will pay £1,005 less income tax in 2017-18 than in 2010-11, and 1.3 million individuals will be taken out of income tax altogether by 2017-18 (compared to 2015-16), as a result of the Government’s action to increase the personal allowance to £11,500 in April 2017.

The pay for an individual public sector worker is affected by several factors including progression pay, allowances and the one per cent pay policy. It will therefore vary by individual. HM Treasury does not collect this data centrally.