Clause 9 - Maximum rate
Tax Credits Bill
2:45 pm
Professor Steve Webb (Northavon, Liberal Democrat)
The serious point underlying the amendment is that more than 1 million, perhaps 1.5 million, families may feel some anxiety when they hear that everything is to be streamlined and that some people with similar family structures will get less than others.
It would have been welcome if the Paymaster General could have ended some of the uncertainty about whether the Government believe in taking money away from low-waged families. Given the spirit of their proposals, I hoped that that would require only a modest assurance from her, and it is alarming that she could not even go that far.
On reflection, this is a specific amendment about current rates and thresholds, so it probably does not belong in primary legislation. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
Clause 9 ordered to stand part of the Bill.