§ Mr. HeseltineTo ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) which military units and civilian contractors have been responsible for construction work at the depot site in the parish of Pyrton in the county of Oxfordshire;
(2) if he will place in the Library copies of any documents held by his Department relating to the acquisition, planning status, construction, rating and occupancy of the depot site in the parish of Pyrton in the county of Oxfordshire which have not been released to the public record office;
276W1989–90 if the increase in tax-free income of taxpayers with children were maintained at the same level as that of taxpayers without children in relation to the 1978–79 level.
§ Mr. Peter Lloyd[holding answer 21 December 1988]: Child benefit is a part of the public expenditure programme not a personal allowance against income-tax. For the purposes of answering this question, in the table, personal income tax allowance in both 1978–79 and 1989–90 have been converted into tax revenue foregone and added to the annual value of child benefit in each year. The results suggest that, in order to restore parity in the coming financial year with 1978–79 for married taxpayers with and without children, child benefit would have to be reduced by 32p for one-earner married couples with one or two children and by 17p for couples with three children. If the comparison were based on single taxpayers, the corresponding reductions would be 50p and 30p.
(3) which detachments of troops have occupied the site of the depot in the parish of Pyrton in the county of Oxfordshire since its completion, indicating the dates of duration of each occupancy.
§ Mr. NeubertThe property was transferred to the Department of Environment in 1981. I regret that the details requested are not to hand. I will write to my right hon. Friend.