Clause 1 — Amount to be specified as upper earnings limit: Great Britain

Part of Orders of the Day – in the House of Commons at 4:26 pm on 31 January 2008.

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Photo of Tobias Ellwood Tobias Ellwood Shadow Minister (Culture, Media and Sport) 4:26, 31 January 2008

I am grateful for your guidance, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I seek the Minister's indulgence to clarify how many middle-income families will be affected by the Bill. When she responds, perhaps she will allude to that important aspect. According to our calculations, the groups most affected by the Bill will be teachers, doctors, senior nurses and fire services personnel, who have just had a horrendous funding review. In Dorset, for example, firemen have an increase of only 2.5 per cent. over the next three years—1 per cent. in the first year, 0.5 per cent. in the following year and—