Wage Levels

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 September 2018.

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Photo of Robert Courts Robert Courts Conservative, Witney 12:00, 11 September 2018

Will the Chancellor please confirm that the income of the lowest paid has grown more than twice as fast as the income of the very highest over recent years?

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