Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 5 August 1947.
Mr Hugh Dalton
, Bishop Auckland
12:00,
5 August 1947
If my hon. Friend will look up Command Paper No. 6750 of March, 1946, the whole matter is there set out very fully. What we have aimed to do, and what the House accepted at the time as a reasonable thing to do, was to try to bring the soldier into the same general position as the civilian with regard to both standard payments and Income Tax liability. This is one instance of that.