HC Deb 25 January 1991 vol 184 c346W
Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will estimate the cost of changing the national insurance threshold into a tax allowance in 1991–92.

Mr. Maude

The estimated full year cost of abolishing the charge on the first £52 per week of earnings for those employees earning above the lower earnings limit would be about £1.1 billion for 1991–92.