Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office – in the House of Commons at 12:31 pm on 29 November 2011.
The Government have today announced plans that take three times as much from families as from banks. Given that, as we now see, half of all households cannot make ends meet at the end of the month, does the Chancellor think that, under his plans, more or fewer people will be forced to borrow from legal and illegal loan sharks?