§ Mr. Michael Spicerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what would be the effect on (a) the standard rate of income tax and (b) the rate of value added tax. respectively, of meeting the cost of teachers' salaries from those taxes.
§ Mr. Peter Rees[pursuant to his reply, 28 April 1980, c. 333]: 61 per cent. of the cost of school and further education teachers' salaries is already met by central Government as rate support grant. To
136Wtax thresholds in comparison with benefit levels are as follows:
calculations for the abatement of benefit increases in 1981–82 would depend on tax thresholds in that year.