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National Insurance Contributions Bill

If the noble Baroness will forgive me, it depends on how you do your allocations. I can see that she would like to make the juxtaposition that she just has but, as we discussed earlier, changes to national insurance contributions were part of a broader package of measures relating to changes to the basic rate of tax and the withdrawal of the 10p rate. If you look at that for higher earners, both originally under the 2007 Budget proposals and still, they are gainers from that compendium of measures. It was not intended that a further gain should accrue to them as a result of the interrelation with S2P.