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date	20/10/2015
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Income Tax: Tax Allowances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to raise the income tax personal allowance during this Parliament.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	12640
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2015 answer text <p>The government has committed to raising the income tax personal allowance to £12,500 by the end of this parliament, alongside our commitment to raise the higher rate threshold to £50,000. These changes will benefit over 30 million individuals.</p><br /><p>Summer Budget 2015 set out the first step in meeting this commitment. The personal allowance will increase from £10,600 in 2015-16 to £11,000 in 2016-17, and £11,200 in 2017-18.</p><br /><p>These changes will benefit over 29 million individuals and take 570,000 individuals out of income tax altogether by 2016-17. This will increase to over 660,000 by 2017-18. A typical basic rate taxpayer will see their income tax bill reduced by £905 by 2016-17, compared to 2010.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 28/10/2015 17:32:25 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

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date	29/08/2014
answering body	HM Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
hansard heading	Hotels: VAT
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward proposals to reduce VAT to five per cent on hotel rooms.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	207515
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/09/2014 answer text <p>I refer my hon, Friend to the answer that I gave on 11 February 2014, Hansard, columns 212-14WH.</p> answering member constituency South West Hertfordshire answering member printed Mr David Gauke question first answered 03/09/2014 13:51:03 answering member 1529 label Biography information for Mr David Gauke
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith