§ Mr. MacShaneTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer over what time scale he has instructed the Inland Revenue to complete the report into the taxation of married couples announced by the former Financial Secretary on 17 March; and if he will publish it. [1223]
§ Mr. Gordon BrownThe Government have asked Martin Taylor to conduct a review of the tax and benefits systems. This will concentrate on streamlining and modernising the tax and benefits systems so as to promote work incentives, reduce poverty and welfare dependency, and strengthen community and family life.