Mr. McNeilasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, to avoid undue hardship and discontent, he will revise the methods of assessing shipyard workers for Income Tax purposes so that in any week in 1942 they will be paying against a week in 1941 in which a comparable amount of overtime was obtainable, since overtime in shipyards must vary with the amount of daylight available?
§ Sir K. WoodI regret that it would not be practicable to adopt the proposal put forward by my hon. Friend. I may remind him, however, that under the regulations governing the deduction of Income Tax from wages, the amount of the weekly deduction for Income Tax is required to be restricted if necessary so that the wages shall not be reduced below certain limits.