§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if it is his
Thousands Families with children Single persons Marginal rate Total Men Women Married couples Childless people Total 30 … … … 480 230 250 5,980 14,130 20,590 40 … … … 120 150 280 45 … … … 90 110 200 50 … … … 10 10 Negligible 50 70 120 55 … … … 20 30 50 60 … … … 20 50 70 Total … … 490 240 250 6,280 14,540 21,310 Notes:
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- 1. The numbers are given before rounding for convenience, but are not accurate to the detail shown. They include small revisions to the figures given to the hon. Member on 3 April.—[Vol. 982, c. 327.]
- 2. Childless people are single persons and married couples without dependent children.
- 3. Married couples are counted as one.
- 4. Figures for families with children are based on those claiming child tax allowances in 1977–78, projected forward to 1980–81.
- 5. Where a husband and wife elect to be taxed separately, the marginal rate has been rated to be the husband's marginal rate.
intention when short-term benefits are brought into taxation to keep the dependant's additions, payable for children, free of tax; if not, how taxing them will affect the relationship between these benefits and child benefit; and what are his intentions with regard to the taxation of supplementary benefit scale rates for children amongst people who also claim short-term benefits.
§ Mr. Peter ReesI refer the hon. Member to the answers I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, North (Mr. Howell) on 20 May—[Vol. 985, c. 128–29]—and to the hon. Member for Barking (Miss Richardson) on 15 April.—[Vol. 982, c. 613.]