Speeches

Grahame Morris – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Grahame Morris on 2015-10-21.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of changes to tax credits on family incomes.

Damian Hinds

The Government provided an overall assessment of the impact of Summer Budget policies in Impact on households: Distributional analysis to accompany Summer Budget 2015 available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/443229/PU1822_Distributional_Analysis.pdf

The government provided an additional impact assessment on request of the House of Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee. This can be found on the Committee’s web site at

http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/Secondary-Legislation-Scrutiny-Committee/DraftTaxCreditsRegs2015-ImpactAssessment.pdf