Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 May 1999.
Does the Chancellor not recognise that, although the increase in child benefit will at least go to the child, the changes that he is proposing through the working families tax credit will result in the benefit being lost to the child, because in most cases it will go to the married father? Will he admit that the Labour party has failed to deliver on its election pledge of reducing welfare spending?