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Saving Gateway Accounts Bill

I am grateful to the Minister for that reply. He set out the difference between the tax incentive here and the ISA. To paraphrase him, the effect of the ISA and pension tax relief is to support those with a high propensity to save, to maintain the saving habit with generous government subsidy. He then went on to say that this scheme is very different from that because it is a one-off catalyst. My question, which he has not begun to answer, is why it is a one-off catalyst rather than a more permanent scheme. He has not answered at all why it would be possible for the Government to extend the two-year period under the Bill, which is obviously of considerable importance to the longer-term outlook for the scheme. Can he answer that this afternoon?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
709 c352-3GC 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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