Question follow-through · 28742
Married People: Tax Allowances
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the Married Couple's Allowance.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 4 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of increasing the Married Couple's Allowance.
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Married Couple’s Allowance allows married couples and civil partners to reduce their tax bill by 10 per cent of the allowance amount, provided that at least one partner was born before 6 April 1935. At Autumn Budget 2024, the Government uprated the Ma...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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