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Welfare Benefits Up-rating Bill

What I would certainly define as unfair is introducing a clause whose impact on the poorest 10% of people on the income scale will be 14 times harder than on the richest 10%. I hope that he has read the impact assessment as closely as I have. If he has, he will know that 1.4 million people in the lowest 10% will be affected by this measure, but only 100,000 in the top 10% will be similarly affected. That cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered fair.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
557 c96 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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