§ Matthew TaylorTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his answers of 8 July 2002,Official Report, column 769W, and 26 June, Official Report, column 945W, on taxation, if he will restate his answers excluding benefits and assumed changes in original incomes; and if he will make a statement. [70755]
§ Mr. BoatengThe table gives the information requested. The estimates are based on a pooled Family Expenditure Survey dataset for the three years from 1997–98 to 1999–2000 with incomes and expenditure projected forward to 2001–02. The estimates themselves only include the impact of measures introduced and do not include any assumed changes to original incomes.
Net income Decile Percentage change in net income Bottom 1 2 2 3 1 4 1 5 1 6 1 7 1 8 1 9 0 Top 0 Note:
The decile groups are of all households ranked by net income before housing costs and equivalised using the McClements scale.