HC Deb 25 November 1987 vol 123 c226W
Mr. Nicholas Baker

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will bring forward proposals to encourage greater use of personal equity plans.

Mr. Norman Lamont

The Government are committed to encouraging as many people as possible to take out a personal equity plan. I would refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave on 26 October 1987 at column 34, to my hon. Friend the Member for Crawley (Mr. Soames), in which I announced a number of simplifications of the scheme which will come into effect next January.