Topical question asked in the House of Commons, by Andrew Rosindell (Conservative). It was answered on Tuesday, 6 December 2011 on behalf of the Treasury.
Topical Questions
- Question
- I commend the Chancellor on the Government's decisions to protect the lowest paid in the public sector pay freeze and to take 1 million people out of income tax altogether, but will he tell us what effect that will have on working women?
- Answer
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Sixty per cent. of the lowest-paid workers whom we have taken out of tax are women, as are 80% of those who benefit from our policy of exempting the lowest-paid in our public sector from the pay freeze.
Secondary information
- Type
- Oral question
- Reference
- 537 c156
- Session
- 2010-12
- Oral question type
- 1st Supplementary
- Chamber / Committee
- House of Commons chamber
- Subjects
- Pay Public sector
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