Speeches

Seema Malhotra – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Seema Malhotra on 2015-12-10.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to his Oral statement of 25 November 2015, Official Report, column 1369, on the Spending Review and Autumn Statement, what the evidential basis is for his statement that inequality is down.

Damian Hinds

Household income inequality statistics are produced as part of the Office for National Statistics publication “The Effects of Taxes and Benefits on Household Income”, which can be found here:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/household-income/the-effects-of-taxes-and-benefits-on-household-income/2013-2014/index.html