Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 April 1976.

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Photo of Mr Frank Allaun Mr Frank Allaun , Salford East 12:00, 12 April 1976

Is my right hon. Friend's last remark strictly accurate? While it is true that the low-paid worker may have had an increase proportionately higher than that of a man on £8,500 a year, the man at the bottom had a smaller increase in cash than the higher-paid man.