HC Deb 06 March 1990 vol 168 cc592-3W
Mr. Meacher

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Smith) of 20 February,Official Report, columns 681–82, on investment income and earned income, if he will give the average sum per taxpayer reflected in the aggregate amounts for each taxpayer group.

Mr. Lilley

Estimates are given in the table. They are based on a projection of the 1987–88 survey of personal incomes and are provisional. All estimates are subject to a large degree of uncertainty since some investment income on which tax is deducted at source is not reflected in the survey.

Mr. Lilley

[holding answer 5 March 1990]: I cannot anticipate my right hon. Friend's Budget statement.

Mr. Allen

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what percentage of gross domestic product total taxation was in June 1979 and today.

Mr. Ryder

Information is not available on a monthly basis. Information for the years 1979 and 1988 (the latest available) was given in the reply to the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish (Mr. Bennett) on 8 January 1990,Official Report, column 558.