Clause 28 - Qualifying care relief: increase in individual’s limit

Part of Finance (No. 2) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee am 10:30 am ar 16 Mai 2023.

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Photo of Angela Eagle Angela Eagle Llafur, Wallasey 10:30, 16 Mai 2023

I thank the Minister. It is obviously a good thing that there will be indexation. In fact, I was talking about the lack of indexing when we were talking about the freezing of tax thresholds earlier, so I understand that point.

However, I am asking a very technical, specific question about why the Government are using CPI rather than RPI. RPI includes the cost of housing, and the cost of rent, or whatever, for the place where the caring is being done seems to me to be a relevant cost in this context. Indexing to RPI would actually be a better way of representing and indexing those costs going forward. I am asking: why CPI, rather than RPI?