| Heading: |
Income Tax: Pensioners |
| Question ID: |
1807416 |
| UIN: |
55849 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-30 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5262 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Alex Easton
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Alex Easton
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of raising the income tax threshold to £20,000 for pensioners. |
| Is named day: |
false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-09 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4797 |
| Answering Member display name: |
James Murray
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| Answering Member handle: |
jamesmurray_ldn
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@jamesmurray_ldn
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| Answer text: |
The Government is committed to making sure older people can live with the dignity and respect they deserve in retirement. The State Pension is the foundation of the support available to them. Over the course of this Parliament, the yearly amount of the fu... |
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| Answering body ID: |
14 |
| Answering body name: |
Treasury |
| Tweeted: |
true |