Question follow-through · 26997
Wealth: Equality
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recent trends in the level of wealth inequality.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 28 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 4 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recent trends in the level of wealth inequality.
30 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to making sure the wealthiest in our society pay their fair share of tax. That is why the Chancellor announced a series of reforms at Autumn Budget 2024 to help fix the public finances in as fair a way as possible.While income ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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