§ Mr. Gordon Wilsonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what is his estimate of the social service costs directly 474W showing gross income in £ sterling equivalent at which income tax on earned incomes becomes payable at 50 per cent. in each of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France, Germany and Japan, and for each of a single person, a single-wage married couple, and a single-wage couple with two children.
§ Mr. Peter ReesThe information requested is given in the table below:
social security contributions at different levels of earnings, in each of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the United States of America and Japan.
§ Mr. Peter ReesThe information requested is as follows:
borne by central Government in 1979 as a result of unemployment; and what is his estimate of the effect of these costs, together with the loss of national insurance and tax revenue on the public 475W sector borrowing requirement for the period in question.
Mr. BittenI refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) on 24 July 1980.—[Vol. 989, c. 758.]