“What assessment he has made of the potential impact of his Department’s levelling up agenda on the cost of living for people in rural areas.”
Asked by
Wendy Chamberlain
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Answer from Hansard
The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (James Murray)
The Government are committed to keeping taxes on working people as low as possible, which is why we are not increasing the basic, higher or additional rates of income tax, employee national insurance contributions or VAT. The Government have published tax information and impact notes for tax policy changes made at the Budget, which give a clear explanation of the policy objective together with details of the tax impact on individuals. The OBR publishes an economic and fiscal outlook alongside the Budget, which sets out its assessment of the effects of Government decisions taken on tax.