My hon. Friend may be interested to know that the permanent secretary to the Treasury, Nick Macpherson, said as much to the Public Accounts Committee. He said a thorough analysis had been conducted, including what he called a distributional analysis of all the effects before the decision was made.
Civil Service
Proceeding contribution from
Richard Bacon
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 7 May 2008.
It occurred during Opposition day on Civil Service.
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