Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the effect on household incomes of the welfare changes introduced since May 2010 as a proportion of household income for each income decile.

It is important to consider tax and public spending decisions alongside welfare decisions, to understand the cumulative impact on households of government policy.

Details of the impact on households as a result of changes to tax, welfare and public service spending can be found in the Treasury’s distributional analysis publication that accompanied Budget 2015.

Unlike other analyses, it looks not only at the effect of direct tax and welfare decisions, but also the impact of changes to indirect tax (such as the freeze to fuel duty) and changes to spending on public services.

This analysis can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/budget-2015-documents