Child Benefit

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 May 1999.

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Photo of Gordon Brown Gordon Brown The Chancellor of the Exchequer 12:00, 13 May 1999

I have looked at the voting of the Conservative party on the Finance Bill and the Budget, and it has committed more than £7 billion to measures that include cutting the tax rate for smokers. That money would not be available for the health service or for education, and that makes absolutely hollow the attempt by the Conservative party to put itself on the side of the health service and parents educating their children. As the Minister for Public Health has reminded them, the Tories have to go back and think these things out because none of their figures add up.