My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Government have been busily trying to claim that the changes to tax credits will result in no real change because the new national living wage, which is effectively only an increase in the national minimum wage, will make up for that. The IFS has made it clear that that is arithmetically impossible. That is a pretty damning indictment of the messages that the Government have been trying to put out since the Budget on 8 July.
Finance Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Shabana Mahmood
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 21 July 2015.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Finance Bill.
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