Stephen Metcalfe – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Metcalfe on 2014-06-18.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal measures he has introduced to reduce taxes on families.

Mr David Gauke

This government appreciates that times are tough and budgets are squeezed for families, which is why we have taken continued action to help ease the burden on hard working families.

Measures have included raising the Personal Allowance to £10500; abolishing the previous government’s fuel duty escalator, and introducing a further 2 years of Council Tax freeze funding in 2014/15 and 2015/16 for local authorities which choose to freeze Council Tax.