Part of Finance Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 11:45 am ar 13 Mehefin 2013.
I appreciate what the hon. Gentleman is saying, but it belies my concerns about the Government’s complacency about the economic realities faced by many households up and down the country. HMRC and the Treasury have at their fingertips the resources to undertake consultations on complex matters of taxation and to implement legislation in very short periods of time. I therefore do not think it is beyond their wit to undertake an assessment that—should an extension of the measures be used to reintroduce the 10p tax rate, as we think it should be—could bring about much-needed added income for some of the hardest pressed households up and down the country.