§ 49. Mrs. Sally Oppenheimasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will seek to change the present practice of treating maintenance payments made to deserted, separated and divorced women as unearned income for tax purposes, where such payments do not exceed £780 per year.
§ Mr. HigginsI cannot add to the reply which my hon. Friend gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Cannock (Mr. Cormack) on 28th January.—[Vol. 810, c. 198.]