§ 63. Major NEVEN-SPENCE(for Mr. GUY) asked the Minister of Labour what arrangements the Unemployment Assistance Board make for the treatment of Income Tax paid by any earning member of a household in the assessment of the-household resources?
§ Lieut.-Colonel MUIRHEADI am informed by the Unemployment Assistance Board that where it is claimed that Income Tax paid by a wage-earning member of an applicant's household should be deducted from the amount of wages taken into account, the amount so paid is allowed as a special expense by an appropriate reduction of the amount of wages taken into account.
§ Miss WILKINSONIs the hon. and gallant Gentleman aware that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has already given an answer quite contrary to that, and that in the mining areas these deductions are not allowed?