§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will publish figures, using the same assumptions and the same housing cost as in the reply to the hon. Member for Norfolk, 52W North, Official Report, 30 November 1978, c. 298, showing the net weekly spending power for each of a single person, a married couple and a married couple with two children earning £35, £55, £75 and £95 a week, if single person's tax allowance and married person's tax allowance were each raised in line with inflation between April 1978 and April 1979; and if the standard rate of tax were reduced to (a) 30 per cent., (b) 28 per cent. and (c) 25 per cent.;
(2) if he will publish figures, using the same assumptions and the same housing costs as in the reply to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North, Official Report, 30 November 1978, c. 298, showing the net weekly spending power for each of a single person, a married couple and a married couple with two children earning £35, £55, £75 and £95, if single person's tax allowance were raised to £1,350 and married person's tax allowance were raised to £1,900, and if the standard rate of tax were reduced to (a) 30 per cent., (b) 28 per cent. and (c) 25 per cent.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinI regret that I could not justify the expense involved in the production of information of this kind on the basis of hypothetical changes in taxation.