§ Mr. Roebuckasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much a reduction of sixpence in the standard rate of Income Tax would increase the weekly take-home pay of a person earning the national weekly average for industrial employees of £20 6s. 0d. and a steady 30s. a week overtime, assuming such a person to be a married man with two children aged under 11 years.
§ Mr. MacDermotBy about 13s. a year (i.e., an average of 3d. a week) assuming this was his total income.