§ Sir B. Rhys Williamsasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish tables showing the net incomes after deducting income tax but adding family allowances where applicable at the new rates of married couples with one, two. three and six children over a standard range of earned incomes—including incomes below liability for tax—indicating separately the amount of the difference in each case from the net income of a married couple with same earnings without dependants.
§ Mr. Robert SheldonWith 1974–75 rates of tax and of personal and child allowances but with the new rates of family allowances propose for 1975–76, and assuming that all children are under 11, the figures are:
165WColumn (a) shows earnings less tax plus family allowances where appropriate. Column (b) shows the amounts by which the figures in column (a) exceed the corresponding figure for a married couple without children, with the same level of earnings.