§ 30. Mr. Templeasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many individual Income Tax payers there were in the United Kingdom, excluding Northern Ireland, in 1963–64; and of these how many had incomes below the rate at which the standard rate of Income Tax was not applied.
§ Mr. MacDermot17,210,000 counting husbands and wives as one. Of these about 11 million were not liable at the standard rate on any part of their income.