Proceeding contribution from Kelvin Hopkins (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 2 July 2012. It occurred during Debate on bill on Finance Bill.
Finance Bill
Surely the biggest disincentive to less well-off people earning or trying to get work—many are trying to get work that is not available because there is mass unemployment—is the fact that all the benefits are means-tested. If we reduced the level of means-testing and had many more universal benefits paid for out of a much more progressive form of taxation, we would avoid that problem.
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- Proceeding contribution
- Reference
- 547 c689
- Session
- 2012-13
- Chamber / Committee
- House of Commons chamber
- Subjects
- Child benefit Biofuels Income tax Fuels Personal income Motor vehicles Petrol Tax allowances Taxation Tax rates and bands
- Legislation
- Finance Bill 2010-12 to 2012-13
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