Perhaps I can anticipate something that my right hon. Friend will not welcome in this Budget. Does he agree that, be it in south Yorkshire or north Staffordshire, if one member of a family with children is earning £25,000 and their partner is earning, part-time, £6,000, £7,000 or £8,000, that family is not rich, and if they are living in affordable housing the incentive is for one partner to reduce their hours or even give up work entirely? Does he agree that it is not right—it is an insult—for the Chancellor to say that their rents are being subsidised by other working people?
Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation
Proceeding contribution from
Paul Farrelly
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 8 July 2015.
It occurred during Budget debate on Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation.
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