Question follow-through · 4288
Tax Burden
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to reduce the tax burden on working people.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 4 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 12 Sept 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if she will take steps to reduce the tax burden on working people.
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2024
Answer published
The Government wants to keep taxes as low as possible on working people and will do so by delivering sustainable growth through economic stability and sound public finances. The upcoming Budget on 30 October will set out reforms to fix the foundations, so...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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