HC Deb 02 December 1977 vol 940 cc455-6W
Miss Richardson

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, taking account of the new personal allowances, what would be the additional revenue gained in a full year by abolishing the married man's allowance and replacing it by a single person's allowance.

Mr. Robert Sheldon

To reduce the married man's allowance and the aged married man's allowance to £945 and £1,250 respectively would yield an estimated £2,200 million in 1977–78.

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