§ Mr. Rookerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will set out for each tax band the number and proportion of taxpayers whose highest rate of income tax falls within that band in each year from 1978–79.
§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will consider abolishing the married man's allowance and the wife's earned income allowance and replacing them with a single person's allowance for both parties in his forthcoming Budget statement.
§ Mr. Moore[pursuant to his reply, 6 February 1984, c. 436]: I cannot anticipate my right hon. Friend's Budget statement.